Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumCan we please stop with the FAKE SCANDALS about our own candidates?
Have we learned nothing from 2016?
- Pete Buttigieg's McKinsey stuff is a NOTHINGBURGER.
- Liz Warren's consulting stuff is a NOTHINGBURGER.
- Joe Biden's comments from 1993 are a NOTHINGBURGER.
- Bernie Sanders' "deadbeat dad" stuff is a NOTHINGBURGER.
*STOP IT*
Every one of our candidates is 100 times better than Donald Trump. Support your candidate *WITHOUT* tearing down the other candidates.
Chances are, the person you support will *NOT* be the nominee. But all the crap we've thrown at our own candidates will be used by Trump campaign and the media on whoever wins the nomination.
The *WORST* act of any of our candidates is not even in the same universe as bad as Trump.
So cut it the f*** out.
We've learned nothing.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Eliot Rosewater
(31,105 posts)would stop, it wont.
But calling it out like this is outstanding!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
trueblue2007
(17,187 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mopinko
(69,981 posts)we have to learn to plant our feet and say we will not be trolled.
we cant ignore the lies, but we can wrap them in a truth sandwich. state the truth, point to the lie, debunk the lie, detail the lie, speak the truth, speak the truth, speak the truth.
and refuse to be trolled by demanding to be respected. then tell them fuck right off.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ancianita
(35,925 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LakeArenal
(28,791 posts)If the title sounds like a slur, it probably is a slur.
Learn to turn out after a couple pushes by someone you know you will never agree with you.
Let them have the last word. Its never very nice. But neither are they.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JoeOtterbein
(7,699 posts)Until now.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
radical noodle
(7,997 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I have never cared for Bernie, but that is a new one for me.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
amcgrath
(397 posts)There are definitely questions to be asked about PB doing work for Blue Cross, considering his stance on healthcare. There is a lot to be revealed about the South Bend police stuff.
If you are going to exempt candidates from scrutiny, why not join the Republican Party
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
oldsoftie
(12,485 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Hyping up theoretical bombshells that never materialize.
There was "a lot to be revealed" about Clinton's email server
"A lot to be revealed" about Benghazi.
"A lot to be revealed" about her being investigated by the FBI.
Nothing was ever revealed.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ancianita
(35,925 posts)Campaigns don't have a DOJ AG like Barr. Seriously. Because they don't HAVE to.
We know our Democrats. Period.
So get back to acting like it.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Why not join the Republican Party?
See how that works out?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
oldsoftie
(12,485 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
ancianita
(35,925 posts)any best Republican on their best day.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Liberals have become conspiracy theorists about their 2020 candidates.
It's even worse than Clinton in 2016.
STOP, or we have no chance of beating Trump.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
demosincebirth
(12,529 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Mr.Bill
(24,228 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
demosincebirth
(12,529 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,101 posts)Just trash the threads. This is what happens in a primary.
It will get steadily worse till there's a nominee and then most will get in line.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Cha
(296,727 posts)FAKE scandal on Joe Biden!
Yeah, the FAKE ones.. some are called Vetting.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)"Nothingburger" being one of them. Makes the speaker sound uneducated and encourages willful ignorance.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Sets my teeth on edge. I know what you mean about those words.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)In 2016 it was Hillary's emails and paid speeches. People didn't have any evidence, but just throwing out the innuendo of somehow some corruption having taken place and the virulence that people defended that nonsense gave the Russians the tools they needed to cause further dissension within our ranks. What happened is that we went into one of the most monumental elections of the last 50 years fractured.
People, if we never learn, we will never get to the promised land that you envision, regardless of what your vision of that promised land is.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
GETPLANING
(846 posts)They are so much better at it than we are, we still haven't figured it out.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Voltaire2
(12,939 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Aussie105
(5,315 posts)The Nothingburger factories overseas (and local) will be going into overdrive.
They will come into the country and be disseminated by boat, by plane, by carrier pigeon, by hot air balloon. And social media.
By the container load, where possible.
They will be going to enter your sphere of awareness in different ways. Be on your guard! And don't pass on anything you haven't researched and confirmed, doing so makes you part of the nothingburger troll problem.
. . . . consider it a great exercise in critical thinking . . . you will be a better person for it in the long run.
(Keep a stack of cards next to your computer or TV. Labels: TROLL, NOTHINGBURGER, Possible fact that needs following up, etc.
Write on the card what the info you are being force fed. By the end of each week, you should have a nice pile. When this process becomes too tedious, turn the TV, computer and radio off for a week. And relax.)
But keep it simple. Pick your favourite candidate, and don't believe anything negative about him/her. After all, that is what the Trump faithful do, right?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided