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kleinbl00  ·  1535 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's predict the 2020 Dem Iowa Caucus results

    I am entirely baffled by why politicians are throwing their support behind Bernie, and not Warren. Especially people like AOC.

Because this is the only place you get to shape the narrative of the Democratic platform.

I gave Bernie money. I've never given Warren any money despite the fact that I bought her books before she was in the Senate. I think she'd be a hell of a president. But then, I thought Clinton would be a hell of a president, too - the best Republican we've ever had.

Would I vote for Amy Fucking Klobuchar? Sure. But I'd rather vote for an Amy Fucking Klobuchar who has been dragged left like a cattle rustler behind a conestoga. There's this imaginary centrist voter that everyone who would have been a Republican in 1972 but is now a democrat because even they can't handle the Taliban wants you to believe in so hard because it allows them to have their globalism and eat it too and they need Matewan and the TVA shoved down their throats so hard because you know what? If you want the racist vote pander to their economic despair not their idealism if their kid can go to college without bankrupting three generations their need to wave confederate flags around gets moderated somewhat.

You know what? If it gets the party away from Joe "I lost primaries to Mondale and Dukakis" Biden I will endorse Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. 'cuz you know what? Joe "Just not feelin' it in 2016" Biden will absolutely have my vote but I'm cynical enough to also go

You know what, Iowa? FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU and your entire bullshit primary Amish Mennonite Protodemocracy horserace wring your goddamn hands somewhere else, goddamnit I want my country back.