2019-2020 US Elections Megathread I- It Begins

[Farnhamia]

And no matter how many times people deny it, it remains true.


And what gives you the right to say that anyway? You dont get to judge what is and isnt true.

You sure love to decide who gets to do and think what, don't you? I think we've got a tankie here, fellas.

Stay away from pejoratives like "tankie," okay? It may not be a really horrible term but I think of any reason for you to use it except to needle Mystic Warriors.

[San Lumen]

So go tell friends of yours to start it especially anyone in the military you know.

You do know what examples are right?

Also I like how you zeroed in only on the military coup and not the general strike or revolution. I’m going to guess you like those options. Because you only seem to get dismissive of people when they don’t agree with you on the democrats

go start this revolution of yours

MARTA and the MTA are two very different agencies. The reason fares arent completely unaffordable is state funding

If $2.75 for the MTA and $15 for Metro North/LIRR is exorbitant than I think you either are super super poor, are a stingy miser, or have no idea what the word exorbitant means

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and monthly tickets are 400 or 500 dollars depending on where your coming from, plus the service is getting progressively worse so dont make assumptions when your not from here and dont know me.

and you'd wind up in jail.

Only if caught.

I dont think many would sympathize with your so called plight if you did something like what your insinuating

[Thuzbekistan]

You sure love to decide who gets to do and think what, don't you? I think we've got a tankie here, fellas.

Stay away from pejoratives like "tankie," okay? It may not be a really horrible term but I think of any reason for you to use it except to needle Mystic Warriors.

Heard

[Washington Resistance Army]

So go tell friends of yours to start it especially anyone in the military you know.

You do know what examples are right?

Also I like how you zeroed in only on the military coup and not the general strike or revolution. I’m going to guess you like those options. Because you only seem to get dismissive of people when they don’t agree with you on the democrats

You need to jettison all that general strike silliness my guy. Forget Lenin and Stalin and read Mao and other such types, a Peoples War is the ideal form of resistance for any ideological group.

[Telconi]

You do know what examples are right?

Also I like how you zeroed in only on the military coup and not the general strike or revolution. I’m going to guess you like those options. Because you only seem to get dismissive of people when they don’t agree with you on the democrats

go start this revolution of yours

If $2.75 for the MTA and $15 for Metro North/LIRR is exorbitant than I think you either are super super poor, are a stingy miser, or have no idea what the word exorbitant means

\
and monthly tickets are 400 or 500 dollars depending on where your coming from, plus the service is getting progressively worse so dont make assumptions when your not from here and dont know me.

Only if caught.

I dont think many would sympathize with your so called plight if you did something like what your insinuating

The point isn't to make them sympathize...

[Rezmaeristan]

I notice in the poll that Bernie Sanders seems to be the most popular. Does that mean Weekend at Bernie's will be a reality?

[The Two Jerseys]

If $2.75 for the MTA and $15 for Metro North/LIRR is exorbitant than I think you either are super super poor, are a stingy miser, or have no idea what the word exorbitant means

\
and monthly tickets are 400 or 500 dollars depending on where your coming from, plus the service is getting progressively worse so dont make assumptions when your not from here and dont know me.

$500 for a monthly pass to ride the LIRR/Metro-North all the way from the Hamptons and the Gold Coast.

Since when do you care about the rich?

[Thermodolia]

You do know what examples are right?

Also I like how you zeroed in only on the military coup and not the general strike or revolution. I’m going to guess you like those options. Because you only seem to get dismissive of people when they don’t agree with you on the democrats

go start this revolution of yours

If $2.75 for the MTA and $15 for Metro North/LIRR is exorbitant than I think you either are super super poor, are a stingy miser, or have no idea what the word exorbitant means

\
and monthly tickets are 400 or 500 dollars depending on where your coming from, plus the service is getting progressively worse so dont make assumptions when your not from here and dont know me.

Dude $400-$500 a month is really fucking cheap. Especially if you travel on the System a lot. That amount works out to about $13-$16 a day. Hardly exorbitant.

And if you can’t afford a monthly ticket don’t get one. Use the metro system as little as possible and bike/walk/run everywhere

[The Two Jerseys]

go start this revolution of yours \
and monthly tickets are 400 or 500 dollars depending on where your coming from, plus the service is getting progressively worse so dont make assumptions when your not from here and dont know me.

Dude $400-$500 a month is really fucking cheap. Especially if you travel on the System a lot. That amount works out to about $13-$16 a day. Hardly exorbitant.

I crunched the numbers earlier: if you made the same commute by car, assuming 25 mpg and $3/gal gas you'd be paying a similar amount every month just for fuel.

Then you'd probably have tolls and parking fees on top of that.

Oh yeah, and there's a 100% chance that you'd be stuck in traffic for at least an hour...

[Galloism]

Dude $400-$500 a month is really fucking cheap. Especially if you travel on the System a lot. That amount works out to about $13-$16 a day. Hardly exorbitant.

I crunched the numbers earlier: if you made the same commute by car, assuming 25 mpg and $3/gal gas you'd be paying a similar amount every month just for fuel.

Then you'd probably have tolls and parking fees on top of that.

Oh yeah, and there's a 100% chance that you'd be stuck in traffic for at least an hour...

May I humbly suggest an electric alternative?

[Telconi]

I crunched the numbers earlier: if you made the same commute by car, assuming 25 mpg and $3/gal gas you'd be paying a similar amount every month just for fuel.

Then you'd probably have tolls and parking fees on top of that.

Oh yeah, and there's a 100% chance that you'd be stuck in traffic for at least an hour...

May I humbly suggest an electric alternative?

Expected a Tesla, was even more dissapointed.

[Cannot think of a name]

Biden is winning the coverage primary.

n the first full week of his 2020 campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden continued to dominate cable news coverage on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. According to data from the TV News Archive, which chops up TV news into 15-second clips that we access using the GDELT Project’s Television API,1 Biden was mentioned in more clips that any other candidate across the three networks last week, and he was mentioned almost four times as often as Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had been getting the most coverage of any 2020 candidate before Biden joined the race. For the second consecutive week, Biden, who has also been well ahead in polling and endorsements, was mentioned in about as many clips as all the other candidates combined.

Most candidates get a bump in media coverage around the time they announce that they’re running, but for some candidates — like former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who was mentioned in about 870 clips in the week after he declared his candidacy but has recently been getting about a quarter of that level of coverage — that bump can quickly fade. For others, like Sanders, it can be the start of more sustained run of higher media attention. We’re already seeing less cable news coverage of Biden this week compared to the week that he announced, but he started at such a high peak that even a 34 percent drop has still left him on top.

In other news, the world of lowered expectations makes a 46% approval rating cause for 'celebration'.

But in the latest Gallup numbers, Trump is at 46% approval -- the highest mark he has reached in more than two years as President.
Yes, more people still disapprove of the job Trump is doing (50%) than approve of it. And, yes, again, Trump has come close to 46% approval before -- he got to 45% in June 2018 and in January 2017. And, yes, for a third time, there is no meaningful statistical difference between 45% approval and 46% approval.
But, still! This is Donald Trump we are talking about. A man who has struggled for much of his presidency to even win the approval of 40% of Americans for the job he is doing. Just look at Trump's week-by-week performance in Gallup.

(side note, this is a terribly written article)

[The Two Jerseys]

I crunched the numbers earlier: if you made the same commute by car, assuming 25 mpg and $3/gal gas you'd be paying a similar amount every month just for fuel.

Then you'd probably have tolls and parking fees on top of that.

Oh yeah, and there's a 100% chance that you'd be stuck in traffic for at least an hour...

May I humbly suggest an electric alternative?

Commuting to Manhattan is bad enough as it is, no need to add pissing off NORAD into the mix.

[Galloism]

May I humbly suggest an electric alternative?

Commuting to Manhattan is bad enough as it is, no need to add pissing off NORAD into the mix.

You people have no sense of adventure.

[Kowani]

Commuting to Manhattan is bad enough as it is, no need to add pissing off NORAD into the mix.

You people have no sense of adventure.

We come to NSG, that’s adventure enough.

[Ors Might]

I crunched the numbers earlier: if you made the same commute by car, assuming 25 mpg and $3/gal gas you'd be paying a similar amount every month just for fuel.

Then you'd probably have tolls and parking fees on top of that.

Oh yeah, and there's a 100% chance that you'd be stuck in traffic for at least an hour...

May I humbly suggest an electric alternative?

I would frankly rather travel by crowded subway for a year than spend one minute inside this thing.

[Duhon]

Oh, to see McGovern 2.0 in my lifetime.

[Duhon]

Oh, to see McGovern 2.0 in my lifetime.

Who Bernie?

Biden.

[Blargoblarg]

Biden is winning the coverage primary.

n the first full week of his 2020 campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden continued to dominate cable news coverage on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. According to data from the TV News Archive, which chops up TV news into 15-second clips that we access using the GDELT Project’s Television API,1 Biden was mentioned in more clips that any other candidate across the three networks last week, and he was mentioned almost four times as often as Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had been getting the most coverage of any 2020 candidate before Biden joined the race. For the second consecutive week, Biden, who has also been well ahead in polling and endorsements, was mentioned in about as many clips as all the other candidates combined.

Most candidates get a bump in media coverage around the time they announce that they’re running, but for some candidates — like former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who was mentioned in about 870 clips in the week after he declared his candidacy but has recently been getting about a quarter of that level of coverage — that bump can quickly fade. For others, like Sanders, it can be the start of more sustained run of higher media attention. We’re already seeing less cable news coverage of Biden this week compared to the week that he announced, but he started at such a high peak that even a 34 percent drop has still left him on top.

The pro-establishment corporate media is promoting their favorite establishment corporate candidate? I'm shocked, shocked!

Biden is going to win.

Bernie is going to get stomped.

Not being favoritist, but I got a gut feeling Bernie will be humiliated during the debates, Warren will rise in his place, lose in Iowa, and Buttigieg will compete well but strategically endorse Biden. Beto's campaign will be destroyed during the Iowa Caucasus, and after Texas he'll drop out. Harris will quickly endorse Biden and drop out after Iowa, as well as Klobuchar, and Booker, which will seal Biden's victory.

Biden may be doing well right now, but I doubt he'll last. I think his terrible political record, his creepy touchy behavior towards women and young girls, and his tendency to make gaffes will sink his campaign. I doubt Biden will make it past the first few primaries. And I think Bernie has a good chance of doing really well in the primaries and becoming the Democratic nominee. If that happens, Bernie will beat Trump easily in the general.

[Galloism]

Biden is winning the coverage primary.

The pro-establishment corporate media is promoting their favorite establishment corporate candidate? I'm shocked, shocked!

Biden is going to win.

Bernie is going to get stomped.

Not being favoritist, but I got a gut feeling Bernie will be humiliated during the debates, Warren will rise in his place, lose in Iowa, and Buttigieg will compete well but strategically endorse Biden. Beto's campaign will be destroyed during the Iowa Caucasus, and after Texas he'll drop out. Harris will quickly endorse Biden and drop out after Iowa, as well as Klobuchar, and Booker, which will seal Biden's victory.

Biden may be doing well right now, but I doubt he'll last. I think his terrible political record, his creepy touchy behavior towards women and young girls, and his tendency to make gaffes will sink his campaign. I doubt Biden will make it past the first few primaries. And I think Bernie has a good chance of doing really well in the primaries and becoming the Democratic nominee. If that happens, Bernie will beat Trump easily in the general.

They both have a fair amount of meme power, but I’d say biden’s Is greater, at least for now.

[Vassenor]

Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes' new bill, S. Bill 9, will disallow driving of elderly, disabled, or poor people to the polls. It would ban efforts with vans full of elderly from nursing homes, disabled people, poor people who don’t have cars, would be illegal in Texas

...What is it with the GOP and wanting to make it harder for people to exercise their constitutional right to vote?

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

The pro-establishment corporate media is promoting their favorite establishment corporate candidate? I'm shocked, shocked!


Biden may be doing well right now, but I doubt he'll last. I think his terrible political record, his creepy touchy behavior towards women and young girls, and his tendency to make gaffes will sink his campaign. I doubt Biden will make it past the first few primaries. And I think Bernie has a good chance of doing really well in the primaries and becoming the Democratic nominee. If that happens, Bernie will beat Trump easily in the general.

They both have a fair amount of meme power, but I’d say biden’s Is greater, at least for now.

I'm curious as to what meme power Biden has. He doesn't seem like he has much to me, unless by meme you mean the more orthodox definition of "meme."

[Zurkerx]

Biden is winning the coverage primary.

The pro-establishment corporate media is promoting their favorite establishment corporate candidate? I'm shocked, shocked!

Biden is going to win.

Bernie is going to get stomped.

Not being favoritist, but I got a gut feeling Bernie will be humiliated during the debates, Warren will rise in his place, lose in Iowa, and Buttigieg will compete well but strategically endorse Biden. Beto's campaign will be destroyed during the Iowa Caucasus, and after Texas he'll drop out. Harris will quickly endorse Biden and drop out after Iowa, as well as Klobuchar, and Booker, which will seal Biden's victory.

Biden may be doing well right now, but I doubt he'll last. I think his terrible political record, his creepy touchy behavior towards women and young girls, and his tendency to make gaffes will sink his campaign. I doubt Biden will make it past the first few primaries. And I think Bernie has a good chance of doing really well in the primaries and becoming the Democratic nominee. If that happens, Bernie will beat Trump easily in the general.

This sounds almost like Trump, and look where he is...

Eh, Bernie has a shot, but I doubt he can make as great of an appeal to the Mid-West, at least, compared to Biden. I suspect that regardless of who's the nominee, unlike last time, everyone will back the nominee.

[Thuzbekistan]

Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes' new bill, S. Bill 9, will disallow driving of elderly, disabled, or poor people to the polls. It would ban efforts with vans full of elderly from nursing homes, disabled people, poor people who don’t have cars, would be illegal in Texas

...What is it with the GOP and wanting to make it harder for people to exercise their constitutional right to vote?

Source?

[Galloism]

Sanders just endorsed a right to repair law for farmers.

Good, good. Now make it for everyone!

That’s a winning policy. You know farmers are, right now, cracking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware just to fix them and use them?