Typical. CNN isn’t making any streaming video available. So here’s an open thread to discuss tonight’s debate for those who wish to partake.
I did have a stray thought, though…
A debate stage with 10 candidates on it is just stupid, sorry. I don’t know what most of these people think they’re doing but it’s not helping.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2019
How’d you deal with McConnell?
WARREN: Win the majority and eliminate the filibuster
BIDEN: Work with him he’ll be better when Trump’s gone
BENNET: Defeat him
INSLEE: Ax the filibuster
GILLIBRAND: Confront him
HICKENLOOPER: Repeat his words back to him so he feels validated— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 27, 2019
The Republicans have moved everyone TOO FAR TO THE RIGHT. pic.twitter.com/KCakSEnvGd
— Pie Overlord (@Pie_Overlord) July 31, 2019
Jake Tapper seems very concerned that Democrats are moving TOO FAR TO THE LEFT.
Capitalized in case you missed the constant hammering of this message. That seems to be the main theme of this one.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2019
Why tf is Delaney getting so much air time?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2019
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
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We have a President admired by David Duke. I’m no leftist but this country could move to the left on economics and it would do it some good. It would be a good wake up call to those who think what the left wants is akin to Venezuela.
Warren said to John Delaney “I don’t understand why anybody goes to the trouble of running for president of the United States just to say all the things we can’t do and shouldn’t fight for,” and I will never forget the amazing look on his face. Good for her.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 31, 2019
I was just thinking how much I wanted to hear from Hickenlooper and Delaney and Williamson.
No I WAS NOT.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2019
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Elizabeth Warren conducts church at #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/IRfe1zwWzH
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 31, 2019
If they gave them (well, at least some of them) more than 15 seconds to answer a question, maybe it would make more sense.
To the debate thread with this.
re: #477 BeachDem
Yeah, I’ll go even further. Some of the ones I know aren’t even wacky. They’re solid, normal Dems, but they’ve fallen under Marianne’s thrall for some strange reason.
We have our own version of “we need an outsider” voters, and Marianne Williamson is about as outside as you can get.
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
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I keep trying to find the article that shows that, ranked against the governments of the world, Democrats here are a little left of center, but Republicans are really far right of center.
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
Damn. One upfist awarded to Senator Warren.
Back in the day, they would have brought out the hook for most of these candidates.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2019
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yep. Delaney is a fucking killjoy. He’d be fine as a Republican.
meanwhile in eastern Kentucky tonight:
I’m taking a turn out here with the #blackjewel miners, entering their 2nd night blocking the tracks in Harlan County, KY so the mine they worked at can’t move coal until they get the pay they worked for. Paychecks bounced as blackjewel went bankrupt. https://t.co/xSDEIPLYLY
— Benny Becker (@BHEBecker) July 31, 2019
Rains been pouring but miners here seem joyous and defiant, singing everything from “You’ll never leave Harlan alive” to “I want my pay” ( to the tune of “I want it that way”), and cheering back to the many passing cards that’ve honked in support pic.twitter.com/3rskNgnCkP
— Benny Becker (@BHEBecker) July 31, 2019
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🎃
To the debate thread with this.
We have our own version of “we need an outsider” voters, and Marianne Williamson is about as outside as you can get.
Nope—these peeps I know are people who worked on Hillary’s campaign and work on local campaigns and are not “we need an outsider” voters. I don’t get it, but these are people who are usually sane.
re: #19 BeachDem
Nope—these peeps I know are people who worked on Hillary’s campaign and work on local campaigns and are not “we need an outsider” voters. I don’t get it, but these are people who are usually sane.
We don’t want or need an outsider. We need somebody who knows what the fuck they’re doing.
WARREN: ‘I remember when people said Barack Obama couldn’t get elected. Shoot, I remember when people said Donald Trump couldn’t get elected. But here’s where we are’ #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/pFrBiY8Dzm
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 31, 2019
re: #14 Belafon
I keep trying to find the article that shows that, ranked against the governments of the world, Democrats here are a little left of center, but Republicans are really far right of center.
What Happened to America’s Political Center of Gravity? (goes to the New York Times, with comparison charts of the Republican and Democratic Parties ranked against other nations’ parties, with a further link to the organisation which studies parties around the world by their platforms line-by-line).
re: #19 BeachDem
Nope—these peeps I know are people who worked on Hillary’s campaign and work on local campaigns and are not “we need an outsider” voters. I don’t get it, but these are people who are usually sane.
I don’t either. I just don’t get why anyone would want someone who has never worked in government or law in charge. Like maybe I could understand wanting her in Congress but even then I would be hesitant.
re: #24 HappyWarrior
I don’t either. I just don’t get why anyone would want someone who has never worked in government or law in charge. Like maybe I could understand wanting her in Congress but even then I would be hesitant.
She dropped out of college to become a (failed) cabaret singer. I don’t want her anywhere near any form of government. I blame Oprah for her, Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz—and I’ll never forgive her for any of them!
Off topic:
The Walmart spud-pisser has been captured!
Police pop woman who peed on potatoes in Walmart
Police have nabbed the woman who peed in a bin of potatoes in a western Pennsylvania Walmart last Wednesday. A store employee spotted the tot mama in the act and immediately notified law enforcement.
The curly-haired brunette was captured on surveillance video entering the store — and the West Mifflin Borough Police Department posted screen grabs to its Twitter and website.
“Identification assistance — Walmart Incident,” cops captioned the images in a call for the community to help expose public enemy No. 1.
The shamed spud soaker, a k a Grace Brown, 20, turned herself in Tuesday.
A confession:
I have from time to time uttered the words “piss on Walmart.” I regret that anyone has chosen to take this admonition literally.
John Delaney getting this much speaking time is like on Battlestar Galactica when a supporting cast member would suddenly get a whole episode to themselves because they were about to get their brains blown out
— Connor Goldsmith (@dreamoforgonon) July 31, 2019
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
meanwhile in eastern Kentucky tonight:
Yikes.
Trump bringing back those coal jobs.
Worse, while terrorism has a very narrow definition under federal law, interfering with a railroad is defined under that statute.
If wingnuts wanted to go all in for their corporate masters, they could arrest them for that.
Llre: #26 BeachDem
She dropped out of college to become a (failed) cabaret singer. I don’t want her anywhere near any form of government. I blame Oprah for her, Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz—and I’ll never forgive her for any of them!
Right. In any case, I’m exhausted by people who don’t understand policy thinking they should be President. It’s exhausting.
Marianne Williamson now ranting about a “dark psychic force.” Oh, my aching aura.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2019
Live shot of John Delaney after Elizabeth Warren’s smackdown. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/X507G0OGeL
— Holly Figueroa O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) July 31, 2019
Wife just broke out in her best Madeline Kahn impression…. and it worked.
If you want to know why Marianne Williamson isn’t fun and funny, listen to the disabled community in #CripTheVote on Twitter. Or listen to the silence left in the wake of the people that died of AIDS because of her advice and assistance.
— Adam🏳️🌈 (@trickstertao) July 31, 2019
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah her AIDS history is why I don’t want her anywhere near the WH or policy. Gonna read up on disabilities tho. I’m sure she has wacky views on autism too.
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— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) July 31, 2019
Whoa. As a Michigander, let me say FUCK MARIANNE.
“What happened in Flint, Michigan, wouldn’t have happened in Grosse Pointe.” -Marianne Williamson showing off her Michigan roots #DemDebate
— Breana Noble (@BreanaCNoble) July 31, 2019
The GOP is losing some of its most well liked members. Roby. Mitchell. Conaway. Brooks. Olsen.
Retirements are again a problem for the House GOP— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 31, 2019
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Bing to the O. She’s not just loony, she’s dangerous. And she’s fucked up a lot of people’s lives with her bullshit. That’s why I just shook my head at the lengthy NYT interview with her, where she said not ONE word about her presidential platform, but shared her “vast knowledge of mental illness” (which is basically “people get sad”) instead.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ouch!
I genuinely do not understand why anyone would go to all the trouble of running for president just to get up on this stage and talk about what’s not possible. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/cOCz5TS3AF
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) July 31, 2019
re: #38 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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And they’re going to be replaced by even more nutty people. Remember Gaetz’s predecessor? Me neither.
The Second Stupidest Man In America:
Hey Fauxcahontas Speaking of domestic terror, now do ANTIFA!!!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 31, 2019
quite the photo. pic.twitter.com/kJw1DvFqv0
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) July 31, 2019
re: #42 The Pie Overlord!
The Second Stupidest Man In America:
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When’s the last time Antifa killed someone? I can tell you the last time one of your asshole father’s did. I hope you never see your kids again and they grow up to hate your guts.
re: #45 HappyWarrior
“When Grandpa heard that Mom was bringing Thai food home.”
hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mayor Pete Buttigieg drops wisdom:
“If we embrace a far-left agenda, they’re gonna say we’re a bunch of crazy Socialists.
If we embrace a Conservative agenda… they’re gonna say we’re a bunch of crazy Socialists.”#DemocraticDebate#DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/zgdowNEFUs— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 31, 2019
re: #45 HappyWarrior
“When Grandpa heard that Mom was bringing Thai food home.”
Fuck I’m really laughing at that….
re: #42 The Pie Overlord!
His father praised White Supremacists AFTER they had killed someone and beat people up in Charlottesville.
re: #47 b.d.
hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually inspired by my own grandmother trying Thai for the first time recently and having it today lol.
Elizabeth Warren: “We need to call out white supremacy for what it is: domestic terrorism. And it poses a threat to the United States of America.” #DemDebate
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 31, 2019
Those left will be the Russian Republicans like #MoscowMitch. Those leaving do not want to be permanently tarnished as traitors once they’re gone.
Those remaining will have a permanent spot in history in helping ruin America.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 31, 2019
You watch. Imagine the chaos if Russia directed its active measures at elevating Williamson. https://t.co/4myOmtvKRW
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) July 31, 2019
re: #48 Patricia Kayden
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He’s right about that. I have my problems with him but he makes some very prudent points.
Can we send grandpa shouty to that farm planet in Love Death And Robots?
Elizabeth, Pete and Amy were worth listening to—the rest of them need to shut up. Oh shit, now a fucking Tulsi Gabbard ad…followed by a Tom Steyer ad. Shoot me now.
The most important thing I want to know after this debate is which of these way-too-many candidates is “suspending” their campaign.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2019
re: #50 Scottish Dragon
Fuck I’m really laughing at that….
I can’t get over he’s closer to my grandmas age than my mom. Oh and my Grandma is a Great Grandma who remembers WWII.
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Haven’t I suffered enough without having to see a Jonas brother? Ewwwwwwww
IF MY BROWSER HAS CCOKIES WHY CAN’T I EAT THEM? pic.twitter.com/Rb6hkYLweY
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 31, 2019
re: #37 The Pie Overlord!
Whoa. As a Michigander, let me say FUCK MARIANNE.
As a former Michigander, I would argue that’s a true statement.
Grosse Pointe is very wealthy and full of conservatives. The mayor is a Republican.
Rick Snyder would never have fouled up Grosse Pointe’s water supply like he did Flint’s. I’m sure there must be a reason for that, if I can put my finger on the colour.
I still don’t want Marianne.
Sure is amazing how you folks at CNN are reciting Republican talking points. Did Frank Luntz test your questions with one of his focus groups?
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 31, 2019
Still think we should send sanders to that great fake Vermont farm in the sky with the giant killer bugs and the real American farmer types with weaponized mech suits.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🎃
As a former Michigander, I would argue that’s a true statement.
Grosse Pointe is very wealthy and full of conservatives. The mayor is a Republican.
Rick Snyder would never have fouled up Grosse Pointe’s water supply like he did Flint’s. I’m sure there must be a reason for that, if I can put my finger on the colour.
I still don’t want Marianne.
That’s how I interpreted it too.
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
meanwhile in eastern Kentucky tonight:
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Look at those damn hippy socialist commie miners wanting to get paid by their betters! Don’t they know they are lucky to be even in the United States to begin with? Forget about their corporate-profit-hurting salary-not-getting-paid snowflake nonsense…They should just be grateful they can turn on the TV and see Trump on Fox News all day “telling it like it is!”
Delaney looks like he’s watching a tennis match courtside. And I repeat—he’s a muppet.
re: #68 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Look at those damn hippy socialist commie miners wanting to get paid by their betters! Don’t they know they are lucky to be even in the United States to begin with? Forget about their corporate-profit-hurting salary-not-getting-paid snowflake nonsense…They should just be grateful they can turn on the TV and see Trump on Fox News all day “telling it like it is!”
Obviously takers and moochers.
Someone edited John Delaney’s wiki lmao pic.twitter.com/Q88cCo78On
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 31, 2019
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🎃
April Ryan is getting flamed in the comments.
She isn’t responding though.
She won’t.
re: #69 BeachDem
Delaney looks like he’s watching a tennis match courtside. And I repeat—he’s a muppet.
Muppets are cool.
Is this over soon? I need to go watch the finale of Years and Years (to cheer myself up!)
re: #40 goddamnedfrank
Ouch!
We just witnessed the end of the Delaney campaign
— Brion Neeley-Ryder 🏳️🌈 (@brionneeley) July 31, 2019
She had a plan for it.
— Teetads With Luv 🤟🏽💜 (@teetads) July 31, 2019
What if Bernie Sanders is in a Speed situation and he has to keep yelling or the mad bomber wins?
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 31, 2019
re: #54 MsJ
Because they’d rather retire from their posts then stand up to Donald Trump. 20+ Dems with the guts to stand up to run against Trump. Not a single Republican with the courage to do it, even though they well know he is running the party in the ground.
— Cindy B (@Cjbaum0317) July 31, 2019
By the way has His Ass-Holeyness been Tweeting?
And they’re still not giving people adequate time to speak?
It was just explained to me that #CNNDebate had a super long opening so that CNN could stretch the programming into the 10PM hour and fuck up the ratings for all of the other networks.
WHY DO WE OUTSOURCE OUR DEMOCRACY TO TELEVISION NETWORKS?!?!?!— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) July 31, 2019
re: #84 Scottish Dragon
Tired of grandpa shouty. I’m out.
Don’t forget to vote in the Drudge Poll!
Williamson is running away with it lol.
To:
Marianne Williamson
John Delaney
Tim Ryan
John Hickenlooper
And a few others who are too insignificant to name:
And how you tried to make it work
Did you really think it could
How you tried to make it last
Did you really think it would
Like a guest who stayed too long
Now it’s finally time to leave
Yes, it’s finally time to leave
Take it calmly and serene
It’s the famous final scene
I went to the store… bought a lottery ticket… and come home to find this thing is still going on.
re: #83 MsJ
As I noted downstairs, this thing is about CNN making money.
Trump’s voters don’t care about any of these things.
They just want to hate the others.
Nothing a Democratic candidate can say in a 30 second quip can fix that.
re: #83 MsJ
And they’re still not giving people adequate time to speak?
I’m for getting rid of the Dem-GOP agreement about debates and returning them to the League of Women Voters.
@MattMurph24 this, lol. https://t.co/OSQ1mhhGx4
— LiberalPhenom (Obama is my president forever) (@LiberalPhenom) July 31, 2019
I don’t know why these candidates keep trying to invoke “climate change”. It’s not a thing that can swing votes.
The talk should be about money, jobs, more money, and more jobs.
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I don’t know why these candidates keep trying to invoke “climate change”. It’s not a thing that can swing votes.
The talk should be about money, jobs, more money, and more jobs.
I disagree. Young voters care about that passionately.
re: #82 Joe Bacon 🌹
By the way has His Ass-Holeyness been Tweeting?
Not in the last three hours, when he was doing his victory lap about the DNC.
He doesn’t get that though the case was dismissed, they can appeal.
Uh oh. I sense the start of another media meme. https://t.co/yLVWGT1Usr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 31, 2019
re: #93 MsJ
I disagree. Young voters care about that passionately.
But most of them don’t vote.
And it is not clear to me that a candidate will need to keep repeating the phrase “climate change” to get the youth to vote for them.
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I don’t know why these candidates keep trying to invoke “climate change”. It’s not a thing that can swing votes.
The talk should be about money, jobs, more money, and more jobs.
Something something the only planet we have to live on is becoming unliveable.
Aside from all the younger people who have to live with this, some of us older people care about the subject too.
We aren’t going to drown in sea level rise here, but we’ve had more rain than we usually get in ten years.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
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re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I don’t know why these candidates keep trying to invoke “climate change”. It’s not a thing that can swing votes.
The talk should be about money, jobs, more money, and more jobs.
Those are Trump’s talking points. He takes credit for all the jobs (actually created by Obama’s stimulus) and all the money (that the 1% are making)
Using those talking points is worthless unless you want to spend your entire time refuting Trump’s lies, which of course get repeated and that’s exactly what he wants.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
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— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 31, 2019
And you’re legit out-beclowining many pundits on twitter.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 31, 2019
Hickenlooper thinks that “putting America first” is going to hurt Trump?
Trump has his base exactly because he is that xenophobic.
There’s three candidates for the nomination. Biden, Warren, Harris. Period. End this tedious bullshit, please.
re: #96 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
But most of them don’t vote.
And it is not clear to me that a candidate will need to keep repeating the phrase “climate change” to get the youth to vote for them.
We know the older a person is, the more likely they are to vote.
The 2018 election saw a huge wave of younger voters turn out to help with the Blue Wave.
Promoting a culture of voting every time in every election would drive a stake in the GOP.
You see the same sort of avoidance with jury duty (except that’s amongst most people, not just young people).
Civic responsibility is something we need to instill again. There’s a reason the GOP has long opposed civics in schools.
re: #105 Ace Rothstein
Yes.
It frustrates me because the media should be leading the way to hold Trump accountable and not let us repeat the same mistakes.
I think this is the most *annoying* debate I have ever seen in any context.
re: #107 Ace Rothstein
There’s three candidates for the nomination. Biden, Warren, Harris. Period. End this tedious bullshit, please.
I’ll take that final 3. Of those, gimme Kamala.
Pete goes for the kill… for all three of the Republicans who might care.
Stop. Framing. Debates. This. Way.
Talk about content. Policy. Proposals. What people in America NEED today from their elected officials. It doesn’t need to be framed as a horse race with points for the most clever zinger. It reallllly doesn’t have to be this way. https://t.co/QkUHku94Nc— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) July 31, 2019
re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🎃
We know the older a person is, the more likely they are to vote.
The 2018 election saw a huge wave of younger voters turn out to help with the Blue Wave.
Promoting a culture of voting every time in every election would drive a stake in the GOP.
This is a needed strategy.
Can’t be the only one.
But we can multi-task.
re: #113 The Pie Overlord!
I disagree with Soledad. Policy is not a winning strategy.
For quite some time now, American elections for the President is all about image.
re: #114 BeachDem
I think it ended on Jan 21, 2017.
re: #102 Joe Bacon 🌹
Thread, six tweets.
Marianne Williamson is an anti-vax, fat-shaming, mental-illness shaming, grifter. She will will be on the next debate stage. She is the leftwing equivalent of Donald Trump. A poison on our body politic. And a threat to our democracy.
Please RT.— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) July 5, 2019
She would probably try to cure my epilepsy or latent TB with the power of positive thinking. No thanks, I prefer science.
Stop the debates, this sob is over!
Seth MacFarlane throws his weight behind Pete Buttigieg, says “it’s likely this guy will be President one day.” https://t.co/DWNsSl6A9l
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 31, 2019
re: #119 b.d.
I think Pete will be an ideal VP candidate on a Harris ticket.
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I think Pete will be the nominee in 2028.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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She would probably try to cure my epilepsy or latent TB with the power of positive thinking. No thanks, I prefer science.
Still remember when she urged AIDS victims to stop AZT and use “healing oils”…Gave her the chance to fleece them quicker…
re: #119 b.d.
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I may not agree with his choice but this is one of the better endorsements I’ve read.
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I think Pete will be an ideal VP candidate on a Harris ticket.
Pete is putting himself in position for 2024.
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I think Pete will be an ideal VP candidate on a Harris ticket.
I’ll tske that.
re: #125 The Pie Overlord!
Pete is putting himself in position for 2024.
I wish Pete would run for Senator.
John Delaney in 1963: “I don’t have a dream today.”
Marianne goes for the heart breaker….
Is Delaney the lesser Marianne?
Between Marianne’s and Delaney’s closing arguments, I’m ready to mainline tequila right now.
re: #123 Joe Bacon 🌹
Still remember when she urged AIDS victims to stop AZT and use “healing oils”…Gave her the chance to fleece them quicker…
David Perry tore her apart on another thread.
I am not anti-vax. I am not fat -shaming (my work on this topic is anything but that). And I am not mental-illness shaming either. I’m sorry you feel the need to so deeply misrepresent my views & my work, but your doing so does not change who I am or what I have done with my life
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) July 6, 2019
So “Pour God’s love on our immune systems” is a position that embraces the full suite of childhood immunizations? If you were president, would you push to make sure every child is vaccinated?
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) July 6, 2019
(followed by a bunch of other people bringing receipts of her brain-dead ideas such as God prefers skinny people in Heaven with screen captures of those statements)
First, notice what Williamson didn’t say in her apology tweet. By affirming that “many vaccines are important,” she implied that some conventional ones are not—most importantly the MMR (measles mumps rubella) vaccine, which has been found to be effective and safe by every single scientifically valid study ever conducted about it, but which was found to be unsafe by a single non-specialist whose medical license was subsequently revoked, who committed deliberate fraud, and whose completely invalid study was retracted by the journal that published it.
Second, Williamson blamed “Big Pharma,” conflating vaccines approved by (once again) every reputable scientific and medical organization on the planet with Purdue pharma’s latest opiate. This is straight out of the anti-vaxx conspiracy playbook.
Third, Williamson didn’t disclaim her ludicrous abortion analogy. This, once again, is pure left-wing anti-vaxx conspiracy nonsense: that just as we should respect a woman’s choice to have an abortion, so we should respect parents’ choice not to vaccinate their kids.
I’ve dealt with that crook. She makes Trump look like St. Francis!
Putting out a press release to respond to being completely humiliated in a debate brings new and hilarious meaning to down the block tough.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 31, 2019
I listened for awhile, but knowing none of these plans can pass the Senate, and most of these people will be out of the race as of February 11, 2020 when I won’t get to vote until three months later, it seems pointless.
“We fought climate change directly…” - there goes Hickenlooper again.
It’s irrelevant.
And it’s wrong.
Amir Garrett, holy fucking shit. He just tried to take on the entire Pittsburgh Pirates.
re: #136 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I listened for awhile, but knowing none of these plans can pass the Senate, and most of these people will be out of the race as of February 11, 2020 when I won’t get to vote until three months later, it seems pointless.
That’s why I had cartoons on lol.
“We are as polarized and divided as we’ve ever been” - Beto.
Has heard of the Civil War?
Just realized that I’ll be getting a vote by mail ballot under Los Angeles County’s new Vote By Mail system in the first week of February right after Iowa and New Hampshire…
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
If Democrats can’t stand up to it, though, the country is lost anyway.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 31, 2019
2016 had too many things that divided people, mainly the belief that Trump couldn’t be elected, and he still only won because of the EC. They had better not be that way next year, and I don’t think they will.
re: #134 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yup. If the brain-dead anti-vaxxer mom who brought her child 4-H Christmas caroling at my house in 2011, I might not have nearly died from a repeat case of the mumps.
And when the new Shingrix vaccine became available? My wife and I were on that. Damn skippy.
(When I was signing out from the pharmacy for the first shot, there was a guy there complaining about how his vaccine cost so much money - Shingrix isn’t cheap if you pay out-of-pocket. The clerk working with me just said “sign here, no charge.” I asked her why so many people are opposed to single-payer healthcare and the guy looked like he was going to kill me in the parking lot.)
I’m not watching these “debates” with 20 fucking candidates vying for 15 second soundbites. Waste of fucking time. 15 of these candidates better be out of the race by this weekend. #DemDebate
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 31, 2019
Warren blew everyone off the stage tonight. She was amazing. She remains my #1, with Pete #2. Everyone else tonight need to either drop out and run for Senate (Bullock, Beto) either can’t win at all and need to drop out (Delaney, Williamson, Ryan, Hickenlooper, Klobuchar), or are self serving turds (Bernie).
So CNN’s webpage freezes up just as Sanders is about to start his closing statement…
Fate is on my side.
re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I was bedridden with the measles for 3 weeks as a kid. So weak I could not get out of bed without Mom’s help. She would not leave my side mainly because two of my sisters died in infancy.
When I finally got well and went back to school, found out one of the classmates died from a brain hemmorage thanks to measles and another girl was blinded.
So when anyone tries that anti-vax shit on me I reply with both barrels.
re: #42 The Pie Overlord!
The Second Stupidest Man In America:
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I hope Antifa gets rid of the fascists just like the 1940’s version did in Europe.
But that’s not what you meant, was it?— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) July 31, 2019
So far my mind is made up who I’m voting for on Super Tuesday. Elizabeth Warren.
Certainly I am a grouchy curmudgeon these days.
Fundamentally, for-profit corporations like Time-Warner want to capture eyes, to sell advertisement.
You get eyes on product by generating controversy.
And then when it comes to elections, for all the complaining some people do about money in elections, to where does that money flow?
To corporations like Time-Warner.
Until we have a law which requires 100% disclosure of the source of all campaign advertisements, and that includes PACs, then we won’t have fundamental changes.
re: #149 teleskiguy
So far my mind is made up who I’m voting for on Super Tuesday. Elizabeth Warren.
TBD here but she’s grown on me.
re: #147 Joe Bacon 🌹
I was bedridden with the measles for 3 weeks as a kid. So weak I could not get out of bed without Mom’s help. She would not leave my side mainly because two of my sisters died in infancy.
When I finally got well and went back to school, found out one of the classmates died from a brain hemmorage thanks to measles and another girl was blinded.
So when anyone tries that anti-vax shit on me I reply with both barrels.
Both my wife’s mother and my mother had polio. Her mother was confined to a wheelchair her whole life. My mother was fortunate in that she recovered fully and was able to join the Navy.
Now however she is suffering from post-polio syndrome.
I’ve had chickenpox twice (once as a child, once in the Navy in 1993). My barrels are not as big as yours, but I’ll fire back as well.
My usual terms for antivaxxers are either “pro-plague” or “pro-death.”
If the Fed goes ahead and cuts the interest rate a quarter point tomorrow as expected, I’ll be pleased that its finally facing the reality that inflation is flat on its back and there are still a lot of prime age Americans without jobs despite the 3.7% official unemployment rate. It should have been more aggressive in fighting unemployment over the previous decade, but better late than never.
One of my coworkers suffered from polio right before the Salk vaccines were approved and they suffer from post-polio syndrome too.
I can empathize with the pain attacks I get from RA.
re: #153 NO SMOCKING GUN!
…facing the reality that inflation is flat on its back …
Well, rents in San Diego are still up.
And the price of expendables, for me at least, are going up.
Just got home, just now dialed up the debate.
Is it a bad time to ask for no spoilers?
just kiddin’
re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Well, rents in San Diego are still up.
And the price of expendables, for me at least, are going up.
I just got a $47/month rent increase. Sure wish I had more that a $98 dollar Federal Income Tax cut for the whole year to help cover that rent spike…
re: #156 Rightwingconspirator
Just got home, just now dialed up the debate.
Is it a bad time to ask for no spoilers?
Marianne won bigly.
re: #157 Joe Bacon 🌹
You could’ve used it for a membership at Costco.
re: #145 thecommodore
Warren blew everyone off the stage tonight. She was amazing. She remains my #1, with Pete #2. Everyone else tonight need to either drop out and run for Senate (Bullock, Beto) either can’t win at all and need to drop out (Delaney, Williamson, Ryan, Hickenlooper, Klobuchar), or are self serving turds (Bernie).
Quit saying Beto should run for Senate. You will have to pry MJ Hegar out of my cold, dead heart, and I seriously supported Beto in 2018.
re: #148 Belafon
LOL
Hey Trite Supremacist Put your father in a home.
— Dan Wilbur (@DanWilbur) July 31, 2019
Oh, a record heat wave is descending upon Greenland.
The Naujatkuat River in West Greenland running high in end of July, my gauging station is perched on the bedrock. With the exceptional heat wave coming I have my fingers crossed for it not being washed away. pic.twitter.com/JPofxDIELN
— Irina Overeem (@IrinaOvereem) July 30, 2019
re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Well, rents in San Diego are still up.
And the price of expendables, for me at least, are going up.
That is due to bad housing policy, not because interest rates are too low.
marianne williamson definitely masturbates to pictures of wind chimes
— Sarah Beattie (@nachosarah) July 31, 2019
re: #164 teleskiguy
Actually, that’s the sound she makes.
— Randall William Cook (@RWCook51) July 31, 2019
Now the big question for tomorrow is if Harris and Biden will go at each other again.
You seem to have missed the whole point of a couple of Amendments to the US Constitution.
And there is nothing about “God” in the Constitution, Bill of Rights or not.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 31, 2019
re: #158 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Marianne won bigly.
Moonbat supporters are pulling out the old Christian apologetic chestnut “you’re quoting her out of context!”
On Marianne Williamson and homeless vets (a subject near and dear to me):
Speaking of concrete policy, as a veteran, I checked out her platform there. It’s a word salad. “Veteran homelessness is another regrettable, painful issue. Addressing this starts with preventing veterans from becoming homeless in the first place.” BRILLIANT! pic.twitter.com/7azOt8SZFQ
— Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn (@waitmanb) July 6, 2019
re: #79 BeachDem
Venn diagram of the beginning and the end of Delaney’s campaign.
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“You know - for kids!”
re: #140 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
“We are as polarized and divided as we’ve ever been” - Beto.
Has heard of the Civil War?
A number of historians have said we are actually approaching 1855 levels of political polarization and animosity.
re: #68 Rocky-in-Connecticut
Look at those damn hippy socialist commie miners wanting to get paid by their betters! Don’t they know they are lucky to be even in the United States to begin with? Forget about their corporate-profit-hurting salary-not-getting-paid snowflake nonsense…They should just be grateful they can turn on the TV and see Trump on Fox News all day “telling it like it is!”
If I recall correctly wage earners are just another unsecured creditor. Ain’t America great?
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