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Because they have never considered that racism might live in other parts of the brain apart from where we make conscious decisions.

I am not certain his fucked up subconscious brain was reaching for Charlie Weiss's "decided schematic advantage," but I am not certain it wasn't, either.

Opposite problem. People are always missing my dry sarcasm!

Biggest silver lining is that it might jostle some amount of sense into some of the right wing base. Most people go through life believing they'll be okay, so long as there aren't any imminent threats in front of them. The right knows this, so they invent threats to drive uneducated people towards fearing whatever the right wants them to fear. Many of the idiots out there who end up with lost loved ones will not forget Fox News and Trump downplaying this thing. It'll be the first time a real threat hits home, and it'll be the left that tried to warn them. Ah, who am I kidding. That's a fantasy.

If they aren't, it's the Democrats' fault for not supporting the president in a time of crisis. It's sad that things have be come so partisan that even in the face of a truly global emergency, the left hates Trump so much they won't help him keep the American people safe.

Also, the same goes for people that wanted to throw a grenade into the system to blow it up.

You think any Republican senators are wishing they heeded Schiff's warning about Trump being useless in the face of an emergency? No, I didn't either.

Wow. I'm skeptical. I also hope I'm wrong, and at the very least, that we get to find out.

Won't be voting for Trump either. I'll just write in and vote for the person I want to rather than for the one I'm supposed to. I've watched my dad and grandfather go through dementia and alzheimers, I wouldn't have voted for either of them for president either. Okay that's just fucking stupid. A president is in charge of the entire executive branch. That means their cabinet, ambassadors, judicial appointments, the attorney general, etc. There are literally thousands of jobs that you are also voting for. I ain't happy about Biden, but this isn't about one person.

Do you even see him managing to fully repeal the tax cuts for the wealthy, without some compromise that allows the wealthy to remain better off than they were before Trump?

LOL. Oh yeah, that's why he's winning. His platform. Yeah, that's the ticket.

I'll happily vote for him over Trump, for whatever good it will do. But three years of Trump made me I forget how much I can't stand the Democratic Party, and this is a rude reminder.

Can we all just take a moment to remember way back in the distant past, oh I dunno, about a month ago, when everybody who wasn't a Trumpkin -- a list that includes independents, ex-Republicans, moderate Democrats, progressive Democrats, communists, Maoists, fucking Taoists -- seemed to all unanimously agree that they wanted anyone but Joe Biden to be the Democratic candidate this year?

I guess. Without knowing much about Sanders' voting base, I can't say for sure, but my suspicion is that Sanders voters want a credible path to actual change. I can't be the only one who would find a VP nomination to be an empty gesture, regardless of the recipient. Warren can do more tangible good as a senator than stuffed away in a VP position.

How is he supposed to reach out to progressives? Sanders built a commanding lead on a progressive platform that people took seriously. So much so, in fact, that the entire party coalesced behind Biden at a moment precisely timed to reverse Bernie's momentum. And I ain't even complaining about that, it's just politics. For instance, if the DNC thought Sanders couldn't beat Trump, it's not unreasonable to cut out Sanders at all cost. I'd argue their wrong in their premise, but I'd concede that they clearly arrived at a sound conclusion. Either way, if Biden's surge is about stopping Sanders, I don't see any way he gets taken seriously by the Sanders camp. Assuming Biden wins the nomination, I'll obviously vote for Biden in November, but there is nothing he can offer beyond pandering and lip service, and nobody wants that.

The crazy thing is how well this works without him having to actually realize he's doing it. He says whatever makes him feel good. Because his thoughts are so scattered, and his attention span is so short, he can't help but to contradict himself. Fox News continually expands the elaborate castle in the sky they've built to give each successive contradiction its own room where it makes some small amount of logical sense (as long as you don't leave the room). Collective insanity is a sight to behold. When one person goes insane, we recognize that insanity because their words and actions are no longer sympathetic with the general population. But when a whole group of people go insane together, there's no stopping it -- until the good guys show up at Normandy beach.

You make a good point, but I think there's an important counterpoint to be made. I'm not saying this to disagree, just to express where I'm coming from. A moderate, safe choice may get elected and stop the kids in cages, and we'll all breathe a sigh in relief (including me). But that person might very well not go far enough, because kids in cages will still be "okay" unless the GOP is held accountable. This primary has made me really stop and think about what's the most important thing I want accomplished with this election. I realized that while I don't love the notion of our next president being center of the road on policy issues, I could actually live with that if they are committed to helping our democracy heal. And I don't mean mamby pamby appeasement that moderates indulge in. I mean undoing voter suppression tactics, foreign interference in elections, investigating and prosecuting GOP corruption, cleaning up the judiciary, etc. Ultimately, after this shit show, I want to see the GOP annihilated as an organization that carries any political influence whatsoever. The wrong Democratic candidate will say the right things while campaigning and ultimately accomplish little in office. The ideal candidate will mobilize the entire country around an agenda that will put an end to voter disenfranchisement, restore the rule of law, etc. Of course, nobody's perfect, and none of these candidates are the ideal candidate. To me, the closest to that ideal was Bernie. In November, it will be whoever the Dems put on the ballot. But if it's Joe Biden, I fear we'll have to wait eight years for another chance to heal this thing, and by then, it'll be too late.

We all choose what medium for discourse we participate in. If you choose participate in social media, you're agreeing to venture into the wild west. Measuring political campaigns by gauging the relative degree of vitriol in their supporter's anonymous youtube comments and twitter replies doesn't actually help anything.

I've been through too many election cycles where I don't get my way to be too bothered if Bernie loses. I could get behind Warren pretty easily, but while I'd obviously cast a vote for Biden in November, I wouldn't otherwise be politically active. Ultimately, our democracy is screwed if we don't elect people that will hold the GOP accountable, and I don't see Biden addressing anything on that front. IMO he'll keep Democrats/independents who are financially stable from losing faith in the system, and I think that's a crucial component of the death spiral we're in.

I can imagine Bernie haters reading it and thinking, "finally, some legit dirt on the guy." But I can't imagine anyone reading it and deciding, "wow, I actually feel differently about Bernie Sanders now."

I mean everyone who knows India has a Hindu majority spotted him immediately, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone less versed in their demographics would take at least until the reference to TDS to pick up on it.

PHLaggie is one of those tweed-jacket-with-an-elbow-patch trolls. On the surface, you see an even keeled, well-informed, rational academic type. Hell, with the costume on, he almost fools you into thinking he might actually be intelligent. Until, of course, you consider that once that jacket comes off, he's not much more than a flat earther. Ignored.

American “principles” are hollow catchphrases. Their primary use is to sustain the delusion of virtue and moral superiority among the financially successful. It’s a less insane expression of the prosperity gospel message.

I suppose from the perspective of someone looking out from inside a wash machine’s spin cycle, everything else looks like it’s spinning.