@WoodsDweller
That Trump's popularity is at 60%. That may be bogus, but I hear fewer and fewer complaints about him as his antics become familiar and the stock market and employment numbers stay high.

The person I hear nothing good about is Biden. i.e. "What did he ever do?" "Wasn't he Obama's token white?" "Who?"

... polls show a hot pastrami on rye beating Trump by 24 points, so there's that.

@mimi  
https://www.kontextwochenzeitung.de/medien/431/hallo-leser-noch-da-6034....

Volkes Stimme Ende 2018, erfasst in der Langzeitstudie "Medienvertrauen" der Uni Mainz: "Die Medien haben den Kontakt zu Menschen wie mir verloren", erklärten 27 Prozent der Deutschen (im Jahr davor waren es erst 18 Prozent), und 43 Prozent (Vorjahr 36) fanden, "dass die Medien die gesellschaftlichen Zustände ganz anders darstellen, als es die Bürger im eigenen Umfeld wahrnehmen."

Translation:

Public opinion at the end of 2018, as measured by the University of Mainz’s long-term research project “Trust in Media”:
27% (2017: 18%) of Germans agree with the statement “The media are out of touch with people like me”;
43% (2017: 36%) agree that “The picture the media paint of conditions in society is very different from what citizens personally see happening around them.”

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@karl pearson

Did you see his apology? Not too long ago he said that he would never apologize for what he did in the past. He started out sincere, but....

What's the saying? Everything that comes before the but gets wiped out when you say it. lol.

Looking at those headlines, it's obvious the MSM are biased against real Progressives, like Bernie Sanders. I just don't think the average person pays much attention to these people and this is why they have to scream louder and louder. The MSM have lost a lot of credibility since Bush II/Cheney and by the time of the 2016 Presidential campaign, they looked "old & tired". Right now CNN's Chris Cuomo is interviewing Jo & Jill Biden. Biden looks "old & tired", just like CNN. But who's listening? Not me, because I have it on MUTE and I bet I'm not alone.

@tle I’m also having a WTF moment with the polls. One poll had Sanders at 9%.

DNC Executive Committee members and their parents.

I briefly watched MSNBC tonight, and they were positively gushing over how much money Warren raised. They acted like Bernie had never existed, that Warren was doing something unprecedented. At a different time, they were covering the Biden-Harris kerfluffle. So far as I know, the only other candidate who has chimed in on that is Tulsi. Guess they didn’t like what Tulsi said; they never mentioned her.

I’m also having a WTF moment with the polls. One poll had Sanders at 9%. For me, the pollsters have lost all credibility. (and why can’t at least ONE pollster do a ranked choice poll?)

@snoopydawg I don't think he "went over to the other side". He's always been on the side of the 1%, and against the 99%. It just takes a while for us to recognize the campaign promises are just words to get elected and fool us into voting for him.

Joe Biden is a Collaborator

It’s really quite simple: the rogue oligarchs and corporations who now run this country constitute the enemy. Since becoming a Senator in 1973, your favorite Irish uncle, Joe Biden, has actively collaborated in the extreme capitalism, racism, nationalism, and police state-ism that enable the oligarchs’ agenda; and while most ably empowered by their instrument, the Republican Party, between times, it is more than adequately carried out by the Democrats. What we see now, with a mostly pliant Trump, with a conservative majority Supreme Court, and with a divided Congress where stasis rules, is the Oligarchy’s ideal. But as the political calendar moves on – a proven collaborator must be installed, over the next twelve months, as the Democratic nominee in the 2020 tryst with their current champion – just in case.

Biden now apparently preeminent among them as the former Vice President and a Senator of Noachian longevity, stand by to facilitate this process. Not so long ago, Obama, the Appeaser-in-Chief, with the collaborationist Biden at his side, did sterling work on the oligarchs’ behalf. Obama’s failure to adequately press for the instatement of Justice Merrick Garland in 2016, ensured the Court’s conservative majority.

The Democratic Party, despite its professed support of Labor and egalitarian social programs, is a tragically weak bulwark against this prevailing agenda of enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. In recent history, we have suffered through two intensely collaborationist governments, overseen by Bill Clinton and Barak Obama. In 2016, we only escaped a third because of Trump’s victory over his putative opponent Hillary Clinton. She, of course, was a Presidential collaborationist in the making, having served her time as both a Senator and as Secretary of State in a government committed to the demands of capital and to the realpolitik of Empire. In place of a Presidency infused with a profoundly false consciousness, we have instead, the real deal. Frightening isn’t it?

But we should not forget that Biden remains typical of the great, antediluvian Congressional horde. His complicity in furthering the oligarchs’ agenda is well known. He was complicit in the passage of the racist Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994; complicit in Obama’s canny retention of private health insurers in the mix of the Affordable Care Act; and complicit in the ACA’s denial of health services to ‘illegals’. This blatant act of government triage is coupled, in its inhumanity, with the deportation, during Obama’s two terms, of almost three million ‘illegal’ immigrants. Both actions are eerily redolent of past foreign genocides and directly comparable to our own home-grown genocide when Native Americans were herded into reservations which offered tragically limited game-lands, poor soil, disease and overcrowding. Now, in this revisiting of the past, our deportees are returned to impoverished and violent countries, fatally corrupted by the United States, where the climate emergency has made life for the poor a living (and dying) hell. It is worth recalling that these deportations are perpetrated in a nation founded by ‘illegals’.

It won't matter if Trump or ByeDone wins because the results will be the same. A win for the oligarchs and a loss for the 99% just like it's been for a very long time. But for now Trump is trying to keep us out of new wars which ByeDone will be all too willing to get us into.

@Fishtroller 02

($19 million) was triple what she raised last reporting period. That was what made it noteworthy. Not that it was one million more than Bernie raised the same period. (Since, he always raises a bunch of money.)

*(Steve Kornacki)

Mollie

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. ”
~~Roger Caras

because Warren netted $19 million and he only got $18 in the last quarter. No analysis about number of donors or the sources because WHY LOOK INTO THAT?

@k9disc

For owning Vanguard because it has fossil fuels, but what is the average person saving for retirement supposed to do?

US Economy and US corporations, take a look at the Fortune 200, or a good list of the top 100-500 public multinationals, and you'll see Blackrock & Vanguard are MAJOR shareholders of the US Economy.

Freaked me out a few months ago. I knew about the power of hedge funds and other investment operations, but the scale of Blackrock & Vanguard's holdings are rather staggering. They make huge investment movers and shakers like JP Morgan, GS, BofA look like pikers.