At least Judas got pieces of silver.
Warren is a lib and a complete fucking snake but she actually has talked shit about Wall Street. There's no room for that in a Biden administration, even Elizabeth Warren's tepid technocratic approach to reining in the worst excesses of finance capital is too much for his wealthy donors to tolerate.
Exactly, Biden is picking people who would consider Warren to be example of "the left".
I did talk to some libs who were considering it before he made such a complete asshole out of himself at the debates. It was in that glorious period of time where Biden was corn poppin and Bernie's power level was the highest it was pre-nevada. They were looking for anything that wasn't Bernie that could stop Trump and they hadn't really been exposed to full Bloomberg yet.
Of course you're right though. He was never going to be nominated. He had to speak eventually.
I remain convinced that Bloomberg, as a member of the same echelon of technocratic/finance-capital billionaires who own and control the entire Democratic Party, is among the masterminds behind the anti-Bernie Voltron/"centrist blob" Super Tuesday pivot, has been throwing his weight around to influence the Biden campaign and to promote his worst tendencies, and is going to be one of the puppeteers dictating the Biden cabinet's policy priorities. This would also explain Warren's consistent exclusion/marginalization despite her desperate attempts to demonstrate her loyalty to the party by shanking Bernie at every possible opportunity.
He was the Third Way dream candidate, and if Sanders hadn't locked down IA/NH early there's a very good chance a Bloomberg money bomb and a Hillary endorsement could have pushed him to the head of the pack.
I know plenty of people in Texas, at least, who had him on their short list simply because "Hey, New York is pretty liberal and I like what his $8B in commercial spots are saying".
to be fair bernie sold himself out by schlepping across the country stumping for biden and getting diddlysquat in return
Bernie was too pure for this world.
We need someone not afraid of the dirt, possibly an owl of some kind.
possibly an owl of some kind
Any kind of bird, really. I wouldn't rule out parrots, for example.
I mean, but Bernie was doing it to try to beat Trump, not get some stupid appointment like most of the others. It was so close, that he clearly did beat Trump.
tfw bernie or bust meant if bernie doesn't campaign for biden he'll bust
Oh I thought you meant you personally added it as your custom emote, I was like :floppy-parrot:
I would have added this sticker of my character doing a "oh hell yes" expression/pose, so I can use it whenever that's how I feel cause I feel silly saying oh hell yeah repeatedly
She did it for the love of the game. Warren knew there was nothing for a progressive pied piper except the adoration of blue checkmark twitter.
She's simply not politically savvy. There was no Plan B, she was pushed on by folks who wanted to see Bernie screwed and she figured why not, these days there is no reason not to run for President. Don't believe there ever was a strat beyond this.
Didn't bernie try really hard to get her to run against hillary in 2016?
That says more about Sanders than it does about her at this point.
She fucking spoke at the Federalist society before switching to Democrat for a Senate run.
She was a high profile anti-finance sector candidate that scratched the generic Dem idpol itch (woman, academic, looks like someone's sweet old grandmother)
He supported her in 2016 just like he supported Obama against Hillary in 2008.
This says less about Sanders than it does about the Dem party as a whole. There just aren't a lot of good options.
It was never about getting anything, it's was just to stop bernie.
"Senator Warren what did you hope to get by dropping out and endorsing Biden?"
"The biggest get was to cockblock Bernie from the presidency! Wooooo! Oh, my goodness! I have had waaaaay too much chablis!"
This feels like ancient history now... but back in 2016, wasn't Bernie actually the "fallback option"? I distinctly remember that there was pressure on Warren from progressive Democrats to run against Hillary... she declined, but Bernie didn't. I feel like a lot of this is ego-driven regret... Warren regretted not running in 2016 and wanted to stick it to Bernie for stealing "her spotlight." I dunno.
Bernie begged her to run in 2016. He only took the spotlight when she refused to take it like he asked.
only a liberal could see the reasoning that Bernie's stance stole the spotlight in a potential Warren run.
I've gotten into arguments with Warren supporters where they insist that even though Warren refused to cross Queen Hillary in 2016 and all the energy, name recognition, organization and credibility went to Sanders as a result that he still should have stepped aside for her in 2020.
absolutely legendary political instincts on display, like that time she got so mad about being called Pocahontas she walked the insult the rest of the way by taking a DNA test to unveil the extent of her whiteness
Warren supporters are still fucking delusional. At least Hillary supporters mostly knew what they were getting into (both times). Warren's Karens still think Warren could be in bed with dark money and somehow reign it in. Which is the equivalent to fucking to save your virginity.
Imagining her, just sitting there, making that dumbass face she makes where she looks a mix of bewildered and indignant. :)
Biden is already claiming that he has the support of enough black leadership that he doesn't even need to work with the BLM movement.
Very astute of him.
Coming right out and saying "your leaders will support me no matter what I do to you" is more of that smart Biden politicing , very on-brand.
Actually this is a clear case of a worker not getting paid. Critical support for Elizabeth Warren in her wage dispute.
she used to be a tribal administrator, is Native America, supports the Green New Deal. That departments mainly deals with environmental stuff and Native American land so yeah
That's good. She sounded pretty good from what I read. It's fucked up that I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.
In this case this is actually like the best pick he could've made. I think Sunrise endorsed her. This department gives out the federal land for drilling or fracking or whatnot so that's good
