Wasn't she a Stein supporter?

I see she hasn't changed one bit.

Three of Sanders' top echelon staffers opposed Clinton and voted for Jill Stein.

Around 2015. I suppose she couldn't get enough rank on the Clinton campaign so joined up with Bernie.

Seems anyone who points out a flaw in Sanders' policies is destined to be demonized and not engaged with. His people went after urban institute as well, which even I found shocking.

Remember when Planned Parenthood was deemed "establishment" by Sanders?

This kind of shit is toxic.

Can't wait for him and his campaign people to get off the 2020 stage.

....the last thing she should be doing is fixing others' headlines and/or speech.

Did anyone catch her a week or so ago speaking about "red people and yellow people"? Psst, Nina, this is 2019!

Easy-peasy. Maybe throw a life-preserver to Turner. Because no one is buying the spin this time out.

has been scrubbed - at least from his FB page:



But here's the video:

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What's up with that, BS?

Oh look!
https://medium.com/search?q=breaking%20up%20the%20oligarchy

If you take the "@" out of the url.. the link works!

https://medium.com/SenSanders/breaking-up-the-oligarchy-603bc0d47264

people to top positions that voted for Jill Stein

I’m not sure who the Sander’s campaign wants to attract. It’s certainly not me - a mid-40s gay man and feminist with views as liberal and progressive as they come.

And it’s actions like smearing a liberal think tank that cause me to move even further away.

If the end game is to win, I don’t understand how his strategy is going to achieve that. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

The Center for American Progress is an organization whose massive annual budget is bankrolled by billionaires and corporate executives that profit from finance, pharmaceutical companies, fossil fuels, and sending American jobs overseas.

Last year alone, they took funding from financial giants like Bank of America and Blackstone, whose CEO was chair of Trump's business council and is a leading Republican donor.

Before that, they cashed checks from companies like BlueCross Blue Shield, Pfizer, WalMart, and defense contractors like General Dynamics and BAE Systems.

They also took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fossil fuel pumping United Arab Emirates while the country was bombing innocent civilians in Yemen – a war Bernie has led the fight to end.

Doesn't mean he supports them.

I’m a cord cutter so I don’t get Fox News.

Sadly Faux viewers vote.

It sure sounds like he supported CAP when he spoke to them. He congratulated them on the important work they do.

Is he going to thank Fox for all of their hard work? I don't think so.

How about getting out the vote. Is it effective at that?

I should have added to my original post, I don’t understand why target them as opposed to the real enemy.

But after reading your post, digging a little deeper on the org, and getting a more rounded picture, it becomes clear why the Bernie camp is targeting it: it is indeed effective at mobilizing people locally. It is effective at getting liberal ideas into the mainstream. And, the attack temporarily shifts the spotlight over Bernie.

It’s like children gathering around a schoolyard fight. The media will cover one liberal slugging another. That’s attention-grabbing. In this case, it was a cheap shot that inflamed more people than it attracted.

Who are they working for? Why are they in the circular firing squad Obama warned about?

and fundraising campaign that is using coverage of his broadside to bringing in contributions.

You don’t get to take a shot in the firing squad and then paint yourself as some kind of virtuous victim. It doesn’t work like that.

1. Think Progress is an independent entity, editorial independent.
2. If CAP/ThinkProgress wants to criticize Bernie, so what? It's their right to do it, just as the Justice Dems critique everyone who doesn't like Bernie.

My opinion is that this is nothing but a fund-raising scheme targeting his base.
Those not in that group think it looks petty and oh so sensitive to criticism.

They don't criticize people that don't like Bernie. They are targeting Democrats who vote with the gop. Who is CAP/TP representing? Are they just representing their donors?

is labeled a neoliberal or a corporate Democrat or establishment something or other. Those terms have been so abused as to be devoid of meaning. And any criticism is dismissed without looking at its merit.

Corporate shills just doing what their paid to do. What are the merits of their attacks on left leaning candidates?

Neoliberal? Drink!

A Bernie drinking game would get a person drunk in no time flat.

Good answer.

We are reliable and progressive dem voters. Driving us away by attacking imperfect institutions is a short term strategy that will come back to haunt us in the general.

Buzzwords start to become ridiculous when they're the thrust of a post. If you think declaring something as neoliberal is somehow meaningful (a "merit," in your parlance), you are sadly mistaken.

I'm sorry I just don't believe corporations are people too.

combined with a false dilemma.

A twofer!

And CAP didn't write the piece - ThinkProgress did. But how could his campaign possibly trash ThinkProgress, of all orgs, as being non-progressive? WAIT.... CAP is connected to them!! They have no editorial say over what ThinkProgress writes, but it's a much better candidate for demonizing. Just scrub the glowing speech that he made at their conference last May, and send out the fundraising emails. No one will question Bernie when he says CAP, that CORPORATE SHILL!!! is behind this "attack," not progressive, pro-Bernie ThinkProgress.

But the internet never forgets.

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If you call me out for something I did not say like you are attempting with this “line in the sand” jazz, I’m not going to bother with bantering with you.

Peace Out.

What does it even mean? I guess whatever those who throw the word around want it to mean.

..whether it is being used properly.

One definition from Britannica.com: https://www.britannica.com/topic/neoliberalism

It's my choice.

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"ThinkProgress ― a website associated with though editorially independent from CAP ― as evidence of the think tank’s animosity toward him and other progressive candidates in the race."

I seriously doubt Bernie was going to have much credibility (or raise much $$ from progressives) going after ThinkProgress as "a corporate shill" so he had to point to.... CAP, who didn't say anything about him.

Do you think that Bernie's campaign took the transcript of his speech at their conference off his facebook page, so that his supporters might not find that he himself was at their conference praising them?

And what of Justice Democrats, who have been attacking Democrats all over the country now for awhile now? Doesn't that make them corporate shills?

then it would concern me.

But that’s not who they are. It’s an established organization that reliably supports dems. It doesn’t mean they’re perfect. It doesn’t mean they are evil for calling out dems that do not share in the organization’s mission.

I don’t have a purity test. People and organizations are imperfect.

And do you know what? There is room in the Democratic Party for people who hold left, center and moderate viewpoints. We don’t need a purity test. CAP doesn’t support Bernie. Who really cares other than people who bristle at any criticism?

The optics of what Bernie did are shit. Before someone says, “But, Politicub, Bernie is above optics because he says what he means. So unfiltered. Refreshing like a sip of water drawn from an artesian well in the springtime,” here’s what my response will be:

He better get to caring. We have an election to win. And to do that is going to take more than liberals at the voting booth. Our candidate needs to be adept at building a coalition. See Obama for an example of masterful coalition building. It was a winning strategy. Look to Stacey Abrams for another Democrat who is masterful at coalition building.

You see, I love being a Democrat. Our party is a crazy quilt sewn from all sorts of people. Diversity is our strength. It doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated at moderates. I do at times. Purists can be a drag, too, but c’est la vie. We need all hands on deck to crush the GOP.

That’s why this broadside by Bernie is short-sighted. He needs their votes just as other candidates need the votes from people whose top choice didn’t make it through the primaries.

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Puzzling how these people keep getting hired by Bernie's campaign.

You really "fixed" the shit out of that didn't you, nina?

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Thanks for the link, Goth

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post of Prof Tribe's Tweet on another thread.

Which I'm sure you've noticed by now.

You hear that, Nina?