RFK Jr. poll ratings up
Omigod that's "dangerous"! So what do our mass media do? I know! Let's cherry-pick some news reports to try to make it look as if it's ONLY the Right who wants Democratic Party debates. Never mind that it's 79% of BIDEN VOTERS who want to see debates, something Biden sycophant Bobby Lewis fails to mention.
And, as Krystal Ball points out, RFK Jr. is not a "spoiler":
Oooh but Joe is an "incumbent." Protecting the incumbent, you see, is why the likes of Bobby Lewis must characterize any challenge to Biden's coronation as the Democratic Party nominee as "right wing." Never mind that Joe is currently running a foreign policy that is to the right of Henry Kissinger. And Joe's domestic policy involves sitting back and watching as Medicare and Medicaid are further privatized into monopoly hands. Of course RFK Jr. and Williamson are both running far to the left of Biden. Here's RFK Jr.:
“I don’t want Wall Street running the country. I don’t want the neocons running our foreign policy. I don’t like censorship. I think I’m skeptical about war,” Kennedy continued, adding that he believes the United States should look to “settle” the war between Russia and Ukraine.
And Williamson?
"I feel my forty years being up close and personal with the trauma of so many thousands of individuals gives me a unique perspective on what is needed to help repair America," Williamson wrote. "We need a politics that treats not just symptoms, but cause. That does not base itself on the crass imperatives of endless corporate profit, but on the eternal imperatives of our principles and values."
Here it must be added that Time Magazine (online) is running an article titled "How RFK Jr. Could Lose Badly But Still Throw Biden Off His Game." One marvels at the hubris of media sycophants who know far in advance of any primary how they're all going to turn out. Also, Biden has a game? You'd think if he actually had a game he'd cater to that 79% of his voters who want debates. More likely is that he will be like that imagined Leader in Woody Allen's old movie Sleeper, who is in fact dead but who is still the titular head of state because everyone in power still pretends he's alive.
Meanwhile we can sit back and munch on popcorn as the criminal investigation proceeds.
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QFT
This is an understatement.
You'd think this would be stone-dead after what happened in 2016.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
All to the good in my book
if nothing else it might nudge Biden slightly L on economic issues. I'll bet he gains percentages just because people want someone other than Biden on the D ticket.
All to the good in my book
if nothing else it might nudge Biden slightly L on economic issues. I'll bet he gains percentages just because people want someone other than Biden to choose from. The anti vax stuff is just too weird, I mean at least Trump didn't believe what he was saying.
it doesn't matter if Biden gets "nudged"
'cause he'll renege on anything he might say. There is no way to hold him to any positions he might take in the primaries.
who is in fact dead but who is still the titular head
umm, not sure if it meant this way
but suits Biden to a tee
brain dead rules
not by their own design
mind you, but more easily pliable
for the manipulators
question everything
To the winner go the spoils
And boy if that ain’t true in our American oligarchy.
Saager is wrong
in his reference to the example of 1980 and debates during the Dem primaries. Carter refused to debate Ted Kennedy so there were no debates.
You should tell Saagar.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
Back in the old days
Can't expect Saager to never be wrong of course, but presumably with the fair to good resources of that show someone in house could spend 5 minutes googling some recent political history if they know Saager is going to spend 5 minutes basing an argument on faulty facts. And of course Krystal just sat there and said nothing. I think that's how they have gotten along for so long -- avoid correcting each other's mistakes.
I'm surprised that RFK Jr is so high
19% is the last I heard. I expected 2%.
I half hope Biden loses and that I can meet Jim Clyburn and tell him "you can't win them all".