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On February 25 2020 20:52 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Tonight is a hugely important Democratic debate in South Carolina, which can set some serious momentum for both the SC primary (this Saturday) and for Super Tuesday (a week from today, March 3rd, which is the day with the most state primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia).
Some different strategies that tonight's candidates may consider: 1. All-out attack on the clear frontrunner: Bernie Sanders; 2. Continuing to preemptively attack the looming Super Tuesday threat of Mike Bloomberg, like what we saw last debate; 3. Oddly enough, focusing on Joe Biden for once, since he's currently the SC frontrunner (although he's been dropping and Sanders has been slowly catching up); 4. Those who aren't polling well with the black community (e.g., Buttigieg, Klobuchar) are also likely to go into super-tryhard-i-love-black-people mode; 5. If Sanders can successfully play defense for the evening, he should be just fine going into SC and Super Tuesday. He's polling consistently well in all those states, and his lead would likely increase.
I'm stressed out of my god damn mind. And I'll be watching it with Warren supporters. If Warren ends up deciding to attack Bernie, I'm gonna lose my mind.
On February 25 2020 20:52 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Tonight is a hugely important Democratic debate in South Carolina, which can set some serious momentum for both the SC primary (this Saturday) and for Super Tuesday (a week from today, March 3rd, which is the day with the most state primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia).
Some different strategies that tonight's candidates may consider: 1. All-out attack on the clear frontrunner: Bernie Sanders; 2. Continuing to preemptively attack the looming Super Tuesday threat of Mike Bloomberg, like what we saw last debate; 3. Oddly enough, focusing on Joe Biden for once, since he's currently the SC frontrunner (although he's been dropping and Sanders has been slowly catching up); 4. Those who aren't polling well with the black community (e.g., Buttigieg, Klobuchar) are also likely to go into super-tryhard-i-love-black-people mode; 5. If Sanders can successfully play defense for the evening, he should be just fine going into SC and Super Tuesday. He's polling consistently well in all those states, and his lead would likely increase.
I'm stressed out of my god damn mind. And I'll be watching it with Warren supporters. If Warren ends up deciding to attack Bernie, I'm gonna lose my mind.
I get the impression she's going to try to walk the line of distinguishing herself but it will go sour when she repeats her line about using markets as if Bernie/social democracy (or socialism for that matter) won't.
I don't think she's stupid enough to not know that she is lying.
On February 25 2020 20:52 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Tonight is a hugely important Democratic debate in South Carolina, which can set some serious momentum for both the SC primary (this Saturday) and for Super Tuesday (a week from today, March 3rd, which is the day with the most state primaries: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia).
Some different strategies that tonight's candidates may consider: 1. All-out attack on the clear frontrunner: Bernie Sanders; 2. Continuing to preemptively attack the looming Super Tuesday threat of Mike Bloomberg, like what we saw last debate; 3. Oddly enough, focusing on Joe Biden for once, since he's currently the SC frontrunner (although he's been dropping and Sanders has been slowly catching up); 4. Those who aren't polling well with the black community (e.g., Buttigieg, Klobuchar) are also likely to go into super-tryhard-i-love-black-people mode; 5. If Sanders can successfully play defense for the evening, he should be just fine going into SC and Super Tuesday. He's polling consistently well in all those states, and his lead would likely increase.
I'm stressed out of my god damn mind. And I'll be watching it with Warren supporters. If Warren ends up deciding to attack Bernie, I'm gonna lose my mind.
That would be really disappointing, and Warren can absolutely kiss her (already unlikely) chance of a resurgence if she does that. That move didn't make her any friends, didn't win her any votes.
Debate is starting soon, streamed on this YouTube channel:
"CBS News hosts the 10th Democratic presidential primary debate on Feb. 25 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET in Charleston, South Carolina, just days ahead of the state's primary on Feb. 29. The candidates who qualified are former Vice President Joe Biden, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, billionaire investor Tom Steyer and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren."
On February 26 2020 10:27 GreenHorizons wrote: Bernie looks like the guy focused on issues that matter to everyday people and everyone else looks like a jackass so far imo
Everyone is just mudslinging and yelling over everyone else. Holy crap. Half an hour in and I currently feel like the biggest losers of the debate are the viewers.
Once upon a time, Trump responded to a booing crowd by saying, "those folks booing in the crowd? that's [opponent]'s donors and special interests." Today especially, I have to say that that's the best response I've ever heard to having a tough crowd in a situation like this.
On February 26 2020 10:38 LegalLord wrote: Once upon a time, Trump responded to a booing crowd by saying, "those folks booing in the crowd? that's [opponent]'s donors and special interests." Today especially, I have to say that that's the best response I've ever heard to having a tough crowd in a situation like this.
"I see Bloomberg has been handing out some of his $150 bribes to in person audiences too" would typically not work, but in this shit show debate it would have come out as THE zinger and "fact checking" it would only make Bloomberg look worse.
Would have been a show stopper if Warren said it while they were booing Bernie.
re: Biden. I don't understand the issue with gentrification- all it is people movie into older neighbourhoods that are worn down, rolling up their sleeves and improving the property that they bought. By virtue of them improving the property, the value of the property and those around it goes up. You can literally see certain areas get revitalizes as people move in, ready to buy fixer-uppers, businesses move in, etc. How are you going to stop that? Prevent reno's? And why would you want to? These are people that just like improving the property they bought. The problem is housing supply, not that people are improving houses already in existence.
Definition of "That Escalated Quickly": Moderator: Tell us about your decision to ban trans fats and sugary drinks in New York City. Bloomberg: I'm the reason why Europe and the Middle East banned smoking, also we're completely defenseless to pandemics and the stock market is crashing right this second.
On February 26 2020 11:08 Falling wrote: re: Biden. I don't understand the issue with gentrification- all it is people movie into older neighbourhoods that are worn down, rolling up their sleeves and improving the property that they bought. By virtue of them improving the property, the value of the property and those around it goes up. You can literally see certain areas get revitalizes as people move in, ready to buy fixer-uppers, businesses move in, etc. How are you going to stop that? Prevent reno's? And why would you want to? These are people that just like improving the property they bought. The problem is housing supply, not that people are improving houses already in existence.
The main issues with gentrification are the loss of affordable housing and increase in homelessness (see San Francisco). It's not all bad as you pointed out and it doesn't need to be stopped per se, it's just one of those things where legislation is slow to catch up with the downsides of a societal change. Some proposed solutions are taxing empty properties and relaxing zoning laws.
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