He’s just a gurl who’ll quid pro quo 🤣

The sad thing is that Obama remains such a popular Dem figure that even Bernie can’t directly confront his legacy.

https://prospect.org/politics/what-obama-really-wants/

It’s apparently not enough that Barack Obama commands a megaphone with his every post-presidential utterance. He also got a question at Wednesday night’s presidential debat…

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Photoshopped Mayo 🤣

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/21/pete-buttigieg-millennials-bane/?utm_source=reddit.com

Pete Buttigieg wants to lead for a younger generation — much to that generation’s chagrin.

The fresh-faced first major millennial candidate and his deep-pocketed campaign have recently gotten a big bump in the pol…

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https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/22/bernie-sanders-historically-black-colleges-universities-072758

Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to dish out billions of dollars to historically black colleges and universities — plus other colleges that largely serve minority students — as part of his latest presidential pitch for the country’s higher educa…

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Nauseating

https://newrepublic.com/article/155823/democratic-governors-still-favors-oil-industry

On the West Coast, in California, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has similar questions to answer. This week, local government news site Route Fifty reported that under Newsom, California’s Department of Energy has approved new oil wells at a r…

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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/21/medicare-all-medicine-profit-system-addicted-itself

Imagine my surprise and joy to have the freedom to live. No silent worrying and wondering if my death would be better for my family financially. No thinking about how to die without leaving a mess of debt. My mind and my heart have been so burdened…

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/22/pete-buttigieg-race-us-elections-2020-democrats

Like many in the Democratic party, Buttigieg has focused on white midwesterners stuck in economic insecurity and not the many black midwesterners facing poverty and insecurity. Black families struggle acutely in the midwest, from Milwaukee – w…

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The author nails Buttigieg, but that would be Bernie not Warren that has defined the terms of the ideological debate and shifted the party decidedly to the left. I actually think that Buttigieg has been expecting to be president since…[Read more]

Trudeau rightly gets a lot of flak, but this definitely was a good step.

https://www.salon.com/2019/11/22/radio-host-thom-hartmann-if-trumps-re-elected-we-may-slide-into-straight-fascism/

I recently spoke with Thom Hartmann about the Democratic Party, the 2020 presidential election, and the Age of Trump. He is the host of the most popular progressive radio show in the country, a New York Times bestselling author,…

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More words of wisdom from Obama to wealthy donors.

https://apnews.com/5411b7bd9c414b36b4cf35dead3b75be

“We will not win just by increasing the turnout of the people who already agree with us completely on everything,” Obama said. “Which is why I am always suspicious of purity tests during elections. Because, you know what, the country is co…

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Well to be fair he is leading the polls in Iowa, which does affect the later races. Pete’s problem is that it is unlikely he’s going to catch fire with blacks and Latinos.

OMG

This moment came shortly after Biden told another questioner that undocumented immigrants should “learn the language” to earn citizenship. https://t.co/4l2cZoY5SJ

— Eric Bradner (@ericbradner) November 22, 2019

Difficult night for Biden. After climate protesters were escorted out, a woman asked him to “please don’t take money from corporations.” His response: “You listen to Bernie too much.”

— Cleve R. Wootson Jr. (@CleveWootson) November 22, 2019

Pro-charter school protesters disrupt ⁦@ewarren⁩ speech at Clark Atlanta. They told reporters they came from all over the country to be here. pic.twitter.com/vEmji0a58R

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 22, 2019

Leader of the protest is Sarah Carpenter, whose organization is funded by the Walton Foundation pic.twitter.com/7jMoj7Hy5l

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 22, 2019

And we’ll finish with the final twist: Another major funder of the group who protested Warren is also a major donor to Mayor Pete https://t.co/atrQ6U4YGU

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 22, 2019

Well if Steyer, Gabbard, Yang, Booker, and Klobuchar exit stage left it would be helpful. Probably Harris also. Leave the four that matter.

The foreign policy part (except for ignoring Bolivia and Venezuela) was ok and probably the most extensive of the debates.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35m58/why-buttigiegs-shadowy-consultant-past-at-mckinsey-matters?utm_source=reddit.com

The South Bend mayor spent three years, from 2007 to 2010, at McKinsey following his time at Harvard and Oxford. (It was also during this time that he joined the military, going on to serve six years as an intelligence…

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Wow

MSNBC 20 minutes before the debate are talking to voters and the woman says mostly people interested in Biden and buttigie. But as you can see they were a lot of Bernie supporters behind them and this woman was awesome I can't stop watching this.#DemDebate #Bernie pic.twitter.com/z3CSsekigR

— Devon Lamoreaux (@DevonLamoreaux) November 21, 2019

Great article by a former Clinton supporter who has seen the light and has come to Bernie

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-11-21/democratic-debate-confirmed-feeling-the-bern-bernie-sanders

The Democratic debate confirmed it — we’ve entered the ‘Bernaissance’

My feelings for Bernie Sanders took me by surprise.

In 2016, Hillary…

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Oh that all important Lock em up test!