Wisconsin Primary Results, BlueMAGA, and Evening OT
It’s early so far, but it appears to be looking as bleak as we thought it would.
(credit: Politico)
Good news: looks like a Dem won the State SCOW race:
Judge Jill Karofsky’s statement on tonight’s election results: pic.twitter.com/IbVNAboEmB
— Judge Jill Karofsky (@judgekarofsky) April 13, 2020
I feel like I got some kind of head cold but actually I’m fine. This whole election is far crazier than 2016 or 2008.
What this campaign did was put together a grassroots movement unlike anything in American politics. Thank you to all of our supporters for being part of that. pic.twitter.com/3PAj5FOvho
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 13, 2020
I fixed @JoeBiden's sticker. pic.twitter.com/YRo3KLorl6
— Michelle Boley 🌹✊🔥 (@RogueKite) April 13, 2020
More tweets, news, videos in the comments.
Got my first donuts today at TOP. Guess I’m officially in the 99%.
Oh Bernie, I wish you hadn’t given up your leverage.
I think his rank on the senate committees was in jeopardy.
Or promise of a chair on the health committee, which would be very influential if the Senate goes Dem
I believe he wants to be chair of the Senate Budget Committee, if it flips.
He’s set to be the Chair of Budget since right now he’s the ranking member. Last election there was talk that he actually wanted health where Murray is the ranking member.
I think he’s worn out. I’m in the age group behind him, and having that juggernaut of RW corruption thrown at me would have knocked me senseless. Plus, ain’t no telling what BO said. Bernie could have been death threatened and seriously. It is up to US now.
I agree, especially the last sentence. Senator Sanders knows the majority of his followers and donors will not fall into line at the snap of his fingers. Despite the media characterization, his followers are not a cult of personality who would tend to do that — but are primarily motivated by policy.
He is now bound to fulfill his contractual obligations while inching policy in the correct direction. For commentators who have decried the Senator for giving-up his leverage early, his leverage resides with the large numbers who WILL withhold support without even more policy concessions.
He is now effectively implanted in the nominee’s campaign. The time has come to “go out and make me (this campaign) do it.” He will be inside that campaign pushing for the more progressive direction, but must have the leverage only we can provide against the entrenched interests who control it.
Hi Benny. I relayed your message to TPR. J Graham asked if the mods sent you a warning/message.
Yes, I accepted the first one. But apparently there’s another donut of some sort and I refuse to acknowledge it. So I guess the Mob is showing me out. I’d never had any donuts in the 15 years. It’s fine. I will miss you all but maybe it was time.
Bleeding Blue said they pulled your TU badge even though you have 4 bars of mojo.
WB Reeves asked if you sent a kosmail to someone who might have complained to the mods.
I went to the Help Desk and complained. I guess they don’t like complaints because my comments did not contain profanity, any racist, nor did I tell anyone to fuck off.
For an Intercept article I got in hot water –that Bloomberg was taking over the campaign. That’s considered outside sources. Hate to break it to them, but when the NYT quotes The Intercept, I don’t think it is an alt publication.
This will also come out in the NYT about Bloomberg taking over the party. One person said they wish he would. #BlueMaga
I also think the Mods read the Kosmails.
bloomberg = racist elitist authoritarian. I wonder if Bernie is just too busy and too close to everything to see that Bloomberg is the future of the DNC and of the party and God help us of our government perhaps. i see it pop up on Twitter once in a while, but I think they like to keep a low profile. There really are some people and some of them are influential, who believe we should go more towards a Chinese form of government, basically to keep the hordes in check. And one guy had a point – – that you can coordinate things like a response to the coronavirus very efficiently and keep deaths down. But our whole reason for being America is that we have a democracy and when we haveGood people running that democracy it works. But we haven’t had that for a while.
Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper warned in their last podcast that while there are opportunities for expanded health care, most of it will be more authoritarian in tone, in some ways similar to the Chinese approach.
WTF???
Let them try and put their economy back together when NOBODY is buying.
From one of your fans.🤔
MargaretPOAbenny05
Apr 13, 2020 at 06:03:57 PM
Flagged. You know better than to post unsourced rumors and you know that we must elect Democrats in order to save the country. To me that means that you hate Biden more than you love the United States. You just burnt your credibility around here down to the bare bones, bud.
I’ll bet C99 will have you.
TPW will! 🤗🤗🤗
Margaret is one of the worst there.
It is a very large group to choose from.😜
Thanks! I will continue to try to do right by this group!
MargaretPOA is a neolib Shillbot. I got into it with her more than once.
I have doubts she ever voted for Bernie.
She voted for Raygun–wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
yeah, as though I tried to burn the mission down. Compared to Portia, I was pretty meek.
But I understand Portia’s rage. As someone who almost got date raped, I am bit perturbed about the quality of character in our GE candidates.
Screw Moulitsas and that whole GOPuke TOP scum. I registered on there 12 years ago, have never been kicked off, and finally said–to hell with them–quit probably for good. (Meteor Blades and vetwife excluded).
Only the Sith deals in absolutes.
Joe Biden defeats Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin primary, NBC News projects
Perez nothing in Wi compaires to the roids you and your billionaire owners did to Bernie!!!
the elephant looks the same as well
So what kind of mascot do we need as progressives?
Well it is not exactly a mascot but it does make a point.😁😂

heh heh
If i got a doller for everytime i used that on Walker and Trumpcorp i could buy off Bloomberg
An acquaintance said recently that TOP was about to complete its transition into a blue MAGA site. Now it has. But thank goodness Bernie won’t have to tell Brie or David or anyone else on his campaign to tamp it down. We don’t have to tamp down our disappointment here.
And yet Dr. West is voting for Biden?
I don’t think he’s committed publicly.
This is the quote I saw earlier, not sure where I saw the original posting of it: https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1247996613043400705?s=20
It looks good for Dem Karofsky in the S Ct race. She seems to be outperforming the county benchmarks so looks likely to win a close race.
up 50 k 46% in
Milwaukee just had a big dump of votes almost all prescient’s in
Dont assume the R will hold serve on this
They could’ve just written one sentence. The Wisconsin primary was a complete and utter debacle.
GOPers are trying to steal the Democratic Primary? Who knew! The only ones stealing that are the Dem establishment. Fuck Perez.
While the tone is somewhat condescending, I think the writer makes some salient points.
How Joe Biden won over Bernie Sanders — and the Democratic Party
I would argue that Obama cut those deals, not Biden.
I agree. ByeDone is fossilized and semi-demented. BO cut his usual Raygun Yuppie deals.
leader my rear. He’s in the say anything time Of his campaign
To play devil’s advocate, except for the Judiciary Committee, Biden has never been a party leader.
But now the DNC has gone full-blown autocratic. TOP is a metaphor for it.
buden has a good chance
Biden has a chance to win? Or someone else?
biden
That’s what I thought, but wanted to be sure!
Good signs, for those looking for them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times.html
Thanks for the quote Benny. That a campaign could cause a story on their candidate to be edited behind the scenes is a contemptible lack of independence on the part of the NY Times.
https://twitter.com/DavidAgStone/status/1249843866070482944?s=20
Why anybody is giving any credence to these results is beyond me! Come on. They were posting on Twitter that they wouldn’t even let people watch them carry the ballots from one place to another.
Karofsky wins WSSC finally some good news!!!!
Now we’ll see if the R’s file lawsuits over this. They didn’t want to delay this election at any cost, for the safety of the voters it should of been.
One of my buds in Dane County thinks the GOP will file a lawsuit.
Wouldn’t surprise me at all, Dane county has only 40% of their vote in so this could be a real ass kicking so they may not bother as they have a 4-3 with WSSC anyway which will stand till 2023 People dont like their vote being questioned like the recall election.
Hopefully, the finger is in the dike about the purge.
Brown county (Greenbay) even Door county went for Karofsky Their were long lines in GB on Election day.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/13/21219715/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-endorsement-democratic-primary-2020
I don’t think they know what that signal means to a lot of us.
https://twitter.com/Botts1Paul/status/1249799905020751872?s=20
Talk is cheap, actions matter and if Byedone puts several of Bernies people in key positions then we’ll see may even spell his name right 🙂
Bernie for VP. Non-negotiable. No Bernie VP, no vote for Biden. Period.
I had Raygun-Alzheimers–didn’t vote for him. Cheney-unfit to serve cos of heart–didn’t vote for Dumbya–so I’m voting for semi-demented? I don’t think so, and it feels good!
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-trump-claims-president-authority-is-total-2020-4?utm_source=reddit.com
“Ulitimate authority” Good lord, what is he Fuhrer Trunp? that was used by Adolf Hitler to define his role of absolute authority in Germany’s Third Reich
he shouldn’t have dropped so early. It’s like he did not have faith in how much they needed us and how strong we were in opposition and I think that’s what really hurts
I have to agree pb. However, I don’t always agree with Bernie on certain things. This was too soon.
Bernie has brought a lot of attention to things we care about. I hope he can keep it up in the chambers.
X1000 to both of you
yeah. ya gotta love him. i’m just💔. as is he, probably feeks he letdown the whole world 🌎
It’s Really Telling When the WSJ Does a Better Job of Reporting at times than other Establishment Media
Bernie Sanders Endorses Joe Biden for President (behind a paywall)
I guess some of the rumors were true that Shill and Bernie didn’t get along very well.
Unless Biden picks up a progressive a real progressive VP, he’s not going to do any more than Hillary. He’s a very smooth talker or he used to be
Hey dimwit Joe: you supporting any of my issues? Lowering Medicare eligibility to 60 is asking for my vote? Listen you prehistoric male ahole, it doesn’t. It insults me. You and the crap like you WILL NEVER GET THIS PROUD FUTURIST’S VOTE!
Take note of the weasel words: “he supports the push to raise the minimum wage…” Hillary used the same turn of phrase. It means “I won’t lift a finger to make this happen, but if you manage to get it passed, I won’t stand in the way.”
wtah
https://twitter.com/joeIhue/status/1249851392073891841?s=20
alaska taking delegates away
Have these crooked fuckers been held to account even once for these sorts of rigged delegate apportionings? This was a major failing of the campaign – it has been going on since Iowa, and I don’t recall any sustained pushback or pressure applied by Bernie’s campaign to get fair allotments.