That's the right thing to do. Will BS do the right thing? It remains to be seen.

chops to get those policies in place leaves us in exactly the same place that Dave is threatening. Any such leader surrounded by "yes" men won't be of any use.

Even if that leader and team is totally convinced that words, even very angry very loud ones, are the same thing as actual acheivements, it's just not true.

that will go along and not kill people?

A Democratic led Senate is necessary for ANY hope of mitigating, let alone reversing the damage that Trump and his enablers - and I'm looking at you, Susan Sarandon, Jill Stein and all the "Never Hillary" geniuses - have inflicted on this country for decades.

Anyone who doesn't get that is delusional.

Especially when one disqualifies oneself as an ethical journalist to the point of resorting to attempting to scrub one's own twitter history in an attempt to prevent further damage to their credibility.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/politics/bernie-sanders-hires-former-journalist/index.html

However there will always be paid work with ambitious politicians for those who are willing to, with a straight face, display to the media a stunning lack of self-awareness or irony in their statements.

See also Kellyanne Conway.

I just want to know where that concern is for people who have died as a result of the Trump team taking the White House, due in part to the efforts of "Never Hillary" Russia/GOP enablers like him.

You're misrepresenting or misunderstanding?

And I’m no fan of the guy, but he just didn’t say that.

"if the team you're so enthusiastically rooting for wins the election but doesn't actually put in place policies that end the health care and climate crises, then lots of people are going to die."

That can quite reasonably be interpreted as "vote for someone else and people will die". It's not even remotely difficult to come to that conclusion.

Here's an idea: perhaps we should avoid the politics of fear. Just a thought.

He hardly needs anyone interpreting a straightforward statement.

"if the team you're so enthusiastically rooting for wins the election but doesn't actually put in place policies that end the health care and climate crises..."

That's not a reference to Trump; that's a reference to candidates who aren't "real" Democrats...

if they don't vote for Sirota's candidate.. I wonder who that could be?

I really do not like David Sirota

I don't think best people want to be associated with his campaign.

Too true.

it's something rabid sports fans with zero interest in politics need to know

infers that people will die if you vote for someone other than Bernie

"if the team you're so enthusiastically rooting for wins the election but doesn't actually put in place policies that end the health care and climate crises, then..."

It's not at all difficult to conclude that that's what he's implying. He isn't even trying to hide it; it's in plain sight.

he is surely aware Bernie is not the only candidate addressing climate and healthcare issues

or healthcare issues. The only team that does is the Democratic one.

He's implying that a Democrat would do no more than Republicans because they aren't true progressives. Only Bernie is a progressive and uncorrupted. Remember, Bernie repeatedly says the Democratic Party is corrupt and bought off by lobbyists and wealthy donors and Wall Street and that Bernie introduced progressive issues when he ran for president, that universal health care, higher minimum wage, taxing the wealthy and so on were "radical" ideas to "elite" "establishment" Democrats who ignore the working/middle classes/unions.

It's the usual attack on Democrats. I really wonder what Warren thinks about these things.

AND the people who represent them

Don't know why anyone falls for it.

yup

a member of the inner circle, so if anyone on the team is being listened to, it's Sirota.

But yes, working for a micromanager is often unrewarding, but one takes the employment opportunies one can.

Trump often claims the economy will collapse if he loses. Desperation brings out the stupid.

Fear mongering for votes.



ONLY!!! 2019 and beyond.

This is the sure sign of a desperate campaign... a campaign that's in trouble... a campaign whose staff and surrogates (and candidate) know and are fully aware that they have ZERO chance of being our party's nominee. This is a scorched-earth tactic that only serves to harm the party and benefit the GOP. What good purpose does that serve? As some sort of "punishment" for all those who rejected the BS promises of unicorns and rainbows? Seriously? If people are rejecting the candidate, there's a reason. It makes more sense for the staff (and surrogates) to look INWARD at their own problems and weaknesses than to blame (and threaten) others.

Bernie's Medicare for All and Green New Deal or nothing. Crises, death. Only Bernie can save you. REPENT.

That's exactly right... you nailed it! And I'm fucking sick of the smears and attacks and denigrating comments about the Democratic party and Democrats. It's divisive, it's repulsive, it only creates conflict, distrust and resentment. That kind of negativity generates apathy. Apathy discourages voter turnout. Low voter turnout gives Republicans a chance to steal the elections.

What good purpose does THAT serve? Whose EGO and VANITY is worth that?

Answer: NOBODY!!

is by definition, corrupt or a stooge.

To question anything that Senator Sanders says is to "hate" affordable health care, environmental protection, and social justice and everything progressive.

To fact check him means that one is "working on the part of the corporate owned media," but any positive article in the corporate owned media means that the author of the article "gets it."

...from air pollution because people like Bernie Sanders hate nuclear energy.

In any case, people will still die if everyone votes for Bernie Sanders, since dying is a side effect of being born.

Maybe Bernie's speechwriter thinks Bernie Sanders is God, but personally I disagree. I think he's a tired old fool, belonging in the lower end of the pack.

As for your second point, one of the most outspoken advocates actually said this about "Medicare for All" when discussing the overall cost of health care:

"Why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who die because they can’t afford access to health care”

...to be vastly superior to everything else, and it is.

If the risk and observed consequences are smaller than the things it displaces, this follows:

I have gotten in trouble on other websites for stating this truth: Opposing nuclear energy is essentially murder, since nuclear energy saves lives.

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)

It's pretty funny. The people who objected vociferously to this truth are the same people who used to prattle on about their love of science and in particular the science of one of the authors of this paper, Jim Hansen, until Jim Hansen said something that they didn't want to hear.

They went full Trump into science denial.

Life is interesting and amusing, if not always sweet.

Perhaps it should be stenciled on a magnet and placed on the refrigerator door.

I don’t like Sirota- he’s been misleading in the past.

But he’s not wrong on this.
We must elect someone who will actually address the problems facing our country, or people WILL die due to climate change.

They think its achievable, and allows us to win the election.

If GOP bstructs the next Dem president and we end up with Ted Cruz 2024 I hate to say that our slide to authoritarianism will be complete.

We need not just to win in 2020 but to beat the GOP 2020-2024.

In 2009 we had the ability to improve health coverage but not provide a public option

In 2021 we will have the ability to provide a public option but not achieve MfA.

We advance incrementally.

but Bernie will do so.

He's passively damning anyone whose doing better in the polls than Sanders as a danger to our very future.

But just reading the words of that tweet, Sirota is describing most Dem candidates—who are calling for major systemic change.

And I’m an optimist so I choose to read it that way

He was and is an attack dog against the Democratic party. Your optimism concerning his respect for Democratic Candidates is misplaced.

But that's just my opinion.

is more qualifed and capable than their rivals.

And he's 100% right. It's a statement of fact.

is incapable of doing anything about those problems. Only Bernie can save us.

So people will die if you don't vote for Bernie.