• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The guy who regularly wins primaries for his Senate seat and is re-elected?

      The guy who never, at any point, won national primaries for the Democratic nomination for President and therefore wasn’t nominated for the Presidency?

      I love Bernie, but everyone acting like he was treated unfairly by the party establishment when it was the party base that voted against him is dumb. If he’d won the primaries and then the superdelegates chose Clinton or Biden, that’d be a different story. But that’s not what happened. He lost the primaries, and the people who won those primaries received the nominations.

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        3 hours ago

        everyone “acting” like he was treated unfairly by the party establishment…

        Did you somehow forget that the DNC was caught conspiring with the Clinton campaign?

        Did you forget that when they were sued over it the DNC argued in court that they have the right to choose who would be the Democrat nominee? And that the promise to be impartial in their charter was a mere “political promise” (aka a lie) and they were under no obligation to actually be impartial?

        No one is “acting” like anything. It’s a straight up fact that they admitted to under oath.

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        2 days ago

        You’re just going to ignore the democratic party coordinating all the candidates to drop and put their support behind Biden while funding a PAC to keep Warren in the race to split votes with Bernie right before super tuesday? Plus having their big media buddies run the story of “the Biden miracle” after getting democratic party stooge Clyburn to endorse Biden and come out ahead in South Carolina (the state that went to Trump in the general election, by the way).

        Also, the superdelegates made it look like the lead that Clinton had was so insurmountable that it was pointless to turn out for Bernie.

        If you think these have no effect then, by the same logic, you’d think that billionaires spending tons of money on PACs has no effect.

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          1 day ago

          Clyburn endorsed Cuomo. His endorsement can’t even swing a mayoral primary anymore. Thank god.

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            21 hours ago

            I think his endorsement still holds sway in his state of South Carolina, but thankfully it doesn’t mean anything in New York.