They don’t say “moderates” and “radical socialists.” They say “centrists” and “the left.” But as Jazz Shaw notes, “the left” is just a polite leftist euphemism for radical socialists.
And the Washington Post is admitting — nay, trumpeting — that every single one of the Democrat candidates, including Joe Biden, is on the hard left.
IT HAS become an unchecked assumption about the Democratic presidential race: The candidates are fighting an ideological war between “left” and “center.” This narrative is false, and it is hardly benign. It minimizes the bold policy ambitions of those in the mislabeled “centrist” lane and falsely characterizes those on the left flank as braver or more committed to reform.
Yes, some candidates in the race are to the left of others. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) not only want to make sure that all Americans have access to health care, as do all the Democrats, but they want maximum government control in achieving that goal…
Then there are the policy moves that practically all Democrats agree on: giving legal safe harbor to the young immigrants known as “dreamers”; reviving and expanding President Barack Obama’s climate regulations; reengaging with Iran; raising the minimum wage; keeping abortion legal; cracking down on guns.
In fact, every major Democratic candidate is running on an agenda to the left of Mr. Obama’s.
Now they’re saying this in an effort to boost Joe Biden– they’re saying, “You don’t have to vote for Bernie Sanders to get a radical socialist, Ol’ Sheriff Joe is a radical socialist too. And better yet — a radical socialist smart enough to not admit he’s a radical socialist, like Bernie Sanders has admitted.”
The Washington Post will renounce this op-ed and claim it didn’t mean what it plainly means when it becomes inconvenient in the general election, and they pivot to claiming the candidate they’ve admitted is a radical socialist is now a “centrist moderate.”
But for now, they’ve admitted it.
Just this morning, James Carville once again offered his own warnings about Bernie Sanders. This may sound familiar — he makes the same points reported last week — but this is from this morning.
This is a game the Democrats when Obama first ran. He was far, far left as a candidate when he was trying to appeal to the most radical of his party. I heard from a few Obama supporters who admitted they knew he was lying about this or that so they voted for him anyway. He WAS lying, but whether they suspected it before the fact is debatable.
Democrats today have a much more radical and further left group to suck up to. They have to go further left and tell more socialist lies to try and out-socialism Bernie and Betsie. Of course, they don’t KNOW they’re being lied to.
Bernie’s people are not going to be happy if they get screwed again. They’ve even threatened violence, and that’s not an idle threat. Let’s not forget Bernie had ANTIFA doing his bidding in 2016. But, if Bernie is the candidate, those Democrats that actually have some commons sense are not going to support him.
This is what lying to everyone gets you.
They are the reason the aliens wont talk to us FFS there is no intelligent life lets just kidnap a few for our space zoo, or just feed them to our Space zoo animals.
@Deplorable Me: “commons sense” Dems. will support the nominee—get out the vote—still more Dems than Repubs. and bring the reign of Trump and his trumpeteers to an end.
He couldn’t even resist going after Manchin—what a fool he is.
Kitt—RT MIS IDENTIFIES TULSI—-THEN DISAPPEARS Any clues?
Trump seems to have lost all interest in a Biden investigation now that somebody else is ahead in the polls.
Uh huh. Maybe you should have made that observation during the impeachment trial.
@Richard Wheeler: Gimme a link, all I can pull up is how to identify Holy Basil. I grow sweet basil, chives, flat italian parsley, rosemary and mint.
Strange the Ruskies would’nt know their own agent. 😉
@Greg: You are a lying dog faced pony soldier, Heres the deal, Rudy gave his documents pointing to money laundering to the DOJ.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-10/barr-justice-dept-is-collecting-ukraine-info-from-giuliani
@kitt, #6:
And that is what occasioned the question that led to William Barr’s comment.
@Greg: Unlike the Fake black ledger the Documents gathered by Rudy will be verified for authenticity Hunter and his cohort Heinz will not be railroaded. The corruption is deeper than just Hunter shenanigans.
@Greg:
Uh huh. That’s a nice little piece of out-of-context quoting, little guy. Trump started to reveal Dem corruption, then all of Nancy’s platitudes about the severity of impeachment went right out the window. Coincidence? No.
You can’t actually sidestep the involvement of the DNC in Ukriane, so it’s convenient you and your party now say everything you want not to be true is a “lie”. Sure it is.
Trump hasn’t lost interest…it’s more that others have finally gained interest.
And seriously, you thought Biden was a “front-runner”? No one ever thought that, especially not the DNC while it was making deals with Mini Mike and crashing software to mask Bernie’s support.
@Greg:
It’s being investigated by Ukraine and the Senate. He’s letting the people who’s job it is to do the investigation handle it. He’s proving (and you are verifying) that he had no political interest in the investigation. It was merely necessary due to Biden’s own admission of his corruption.
Nadler seems worried that Barr now has Giuliani’s accumulated evidence. Of course, unlike the Obama DOJ, Barr is vetting the evidence instead of using it as a political weapon. See how following the law and Constitution is beneficial? If this was someone like Holder or Lynch with scum like Comey at the FBI, Giuliani’s information would be pushed on the media for wide distribution.
I wonder if offered a plea deal, Hunter will drop dime on his daddy?
@Deplorable Me, #10:
So says Rudy Giuliani, returned from Ukraine with boxes of b.s.
The word anything ought to tell you something—particularly coming from someone who is strongly inclined to support the interests of Donald Trump.
Then there’s Lindsey Graham, now furiously back-pedaling to gain some distance between himself and Rudy and his “evidence” now that both have served their purpose:
Yeah—as the U.S. intelligence community told the Senate in a formal briefing months ago. They know where these disinformation stories started, having traced them back to their Russian sources.
From The Hill, February 9, 2020 – Graham vows to approach Hunter Biden probe with caution: ‘I’m not going to be the Republican Christopher Steele’
Close public inspection of the contents of Rudy’s box is the last thing Trump’s people want. The box was a propaganda prop. It’s what Hitchcock referred to as a “McGuffin”.
As for the republican-controlled Senate, they’ve already demonstrated how abysmally untrustworthy they are when tasked with the job of uncovering the truth. They were complicit in conducting a trial where both material testimony and material evidence were blocked by the accused. They were, in fact, the means by which that was finally accomplished.
It would be interesting to know who paid the undoubtedly enormous tab for Rudy & Company’s international “fact-finding” expeditions. Somebody really should investigate that.
@Greg: Wrong again, we do want it investigated, the documents verified or debunked. If crimes were committed they need to be prosecuted. Being against an investigation cause it involves a has-been’s kid after screeching for 3 years no one is above the law, brother, that is nutz.
Discounting the information that was gathered by Rudy who took down mafia members could just blow up in your puss. We dont want the form of justice you relished in, no crappy process crimes for imperfect memory or being braggadocious.
@Greg:
How do you know? How can you be so sure? Perhaps you’ve seen some of the other investigative stories and, like Nalder, what’s in those boxes scares the living shit out of you.
You accepted completely without research the Hillary funded Steele dossier. You accepted the discredited “black dossier”. You will enthusiastically believe ANYTHING presented to you as long as it is anti-Republican. However, you can’t accept the incredibly incriminating facts of Hillary deleting 33,000 emails, she and Bill accepting millions from Russians in exchange for her support of letting the Russians take control of a fifth of our uranium, Obama spying on the Trump campaign, the Mueller investigation’s rampant lies and intimidation of witnesses, the total bias and prejudice of that investigation, Feinstein and Blaise Ford’s proven lies, the media’s blatant bias, Schiff’s unprecedented bias and prejudice in blocking evidence from tainting his hearings or the ridiculous demands of Democrats for the Republicans to ceded their control of the Senate trial. But you instantly declare everything Giuliani has uncovered as BS. He’s presented some of the documents on some programs already (undoubtedly saving the “best” for Barr) and they are not opinion, hearsay, second-hand knowledge or presumptions such as Schiff depended 100% on for his hearings.
You know what’s in those boxes? The downfall of the Democrat party.
Enjoy.
@Deplorable Me, #13:
There was nothing in the box but the scripts for Rudy’s floundering internet podcasts. Stardom seems to be eluding him. Even the phony YouTube comments panning the show aren’t helping. Maybe the concept should be repackaged as a musical. Randy Rainbow might give him some pointers.
But more to the point… GIULIANI! (Here He Goes Again) – Randy Rainbow Song Parody
@Greg: Deluding yourself and lying to us is not going to make the evidence go away. He has already revealed evidence of the money laundering Burisma was doing. It would be mighty embarrassing for Giuliani if he has been claiming to have seen the evidence connecting prominent Democrats to the money laundering… and not have it. I mean, it’s not like Schiff who could rely on the complicit media to go along with his lies; Giuliani is going to be held to a higher standard.
You can count on him having the evidence. The countdown has begun.
The rot spreads…
February 11, 2020 — Justice Department undercuts own prosecutors on Trump ally Stone’s sentencing
Give this man another 4 years, and there will be nothing left to salvage.
@Deplorable Me, #16:
I’m not lying to you. You’re lying to yourselves. The truth is right in front of your faces.
Two federal prosecutors have now resigned in protest of the DoJ announcement, while a third has refused to have anything further to do with Stone’s case. Stone was convicted by jury trial on all seven felony counts filed against him.
@Greg: Gee Greg, I see no defamation lawsuits huh…why do you think that is? Some of these documents are the ones Yovanabitch didnt want to leave the Ukraine so blocked a visa, counting on a Hillary win.
Dont you think a bit of management oversight is better than saying it was too hard and signing off on lying to the FISA court?
@Greg: If nothing was done wrong, what are you afraid of?
Hahahahahahahaha….
@Nathan Blue, #20:
Remember what I said about Trump being a malignant tumor? Maybe you should be CT scanned to check for metastases to the brain, since your own doesn’t appear to be working properly.
Trump not only evades justice himself—he’s now apparently dictating it from the White House. That isn’t what happens in a constitutional republic. That’s how things are handled by the authoritarian leader of a tin-pot banana republic.
@Greg:
That’s the result of the liberal police state getting blocked by a DOJ that is no longer run by fascists.
When you say all Giuliani has is BS, you are lying. You are also whistling past the graveyard. Some of us have already seen the results of investigative journalism that exposed what was going on in Ukraine which the Obama administration ignored, encouraged and profited from. What you have is boxes of why Biden forced the prosecutor to be fired and the investigation of Burisma ended.
Democrats are desperate to stop Trump and end his administration. It is a literal matter of survival; already the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign has been absolutely exposed. The fact that the Democrats run bogus “investigation” after bogus “investigation” without turning up a single crime clearly exposes their desperation and abuse of their powers. Hillary saw it coming; they would swing from nooses is Trump wins because the cover up is ended and exposure looms.
Democrats are running scared and Nadler is the face of it.
@Deplorable Me:
Some of you think you’ve seen whatever you’ve been told you’ve seen, but never can cite the specifics when asked about them, let alone describe the supporting evidence. Simultaneously, you can’t see what’s happening right in front of your faces, no matter how much evidence is there to be seen with your own eyes. You’re living in a propaganda-induced alternate reality and apparently liking it, but day by day there’s more and more you have to refuse to see, or pretend not to.
All four of the federal prosecutors involved in the Roger Stone case have now resigned in protest.
@Greg: Your Democrats make accusations they can never back up with any evidence… ever. Schiff claimed he had evidence but apparently lost it. He relied 100% totally on gossip to support his articles of impeachment. You gobbled all this up like a pig eating garbage. Don’t waste your time trying to convince anyone else that they are gullible
Good riddance.
Rudy’s boxes—anybody’s guess
His frantic, rambling, eye bulging, half gibberish rants have us all wondering the contents–his soon to be ex and myriad of mistresses provide no clues
Could be lots of———–binders.
@Greg: Like I said I want the evidence fully vetted, I wont be pleased with anything else but proof beyond doubt before anyone going to jail.
We already have proven the FISA Court was played, perhaps wantonly, but played.
The 7th floor of the FBI purged of political fascists.
Ask away, all you have done is attack something your media has not even reported on.
You can watch Rudy on you tube he does show a tiny portion of the evidence he has gathered. You dont have to believe him you can hate him. Contrary to what you have stated we are not told what to think. Barr is correct to be suspicious of any documents coming out of a country so corrupt. There is a money trail, some trusted financial institutions were used in the laundering scheme.
@Richard Wheeler: He’s presented some of it already. Documents tracking the money laundering in the form of “loans” from Ukraine to numerous other countries and then, ultimately, back to the US. And more. They also have Hunter’s travel records, when he flew with Joe on AF2 and how those trips coincide with his “business” deals. It’s not pretty.
I think it’s great for Barr to verify the evidence before acting on it. It takes time, but it’s the proper way to handle it, as opposed to simply WANTING it to be true and avoiding any attempt to verify it, as Comey’s FBI did with the ludicrous Steele dossier. But, that’s the difference between how a legitimate law enforcement organization operates and how a banana republic acts.
@Deplorable Me, #25:
They most definitely WERE backed up. They were backed up in a federal courtroom with evidence presented before an impartial jury, that then found Roger Stone guilty of all seven felony counts, despite having some high caliber defense attorneys doing everything they could think of to help him evade such a finding.
Do you comprehend that this is how trial by jury works? This wasn’t a republican-rigged Senate impeachment trial. It was a properly conducted trial in federal criminal court, and Trump is meddling with that process.
@Greg: I’m referring to your endless accusations against Trump, which are always found to be totally baseless. Which, of course, you knew.
I guess you can now add meddling with the criminal justice system on behalf of his political operatives to the endless list of accusations.
Why not? He’s now been told that he can’t be prosecuted for violation of criminal law, and that he is immune from removal of office for abuse of power.
@Greg: Zero plus zero still equals zero.
@Greg: you’re just saying what every losing party says about the opposition’s president.
*Yawn*
@Greg: Is saying they are leaving sentencing up to the Judge meddling?
@Nathan Blue: I think the big winner in N.H tonight is AMY. biggest loser Liz from neighboring Mass
Amy IS a moderate—-and she has won districts in Minn. that voted DT over HRC.
She’s a strong , intelligent, personable lady who, as I’ve said before—-can beat Trump if she can get the nom.
Let’s see how she does in S.C
Underdog Amy Klobuchar rockets ahead of Warren and Biden, poised to win delegates in New Hampshire primary
She’s the one they weren’t watching. She’s also the one who may be immune to Trump’s sh*t slinging.
@Richard Wheeler: N.H. Trump has more votes than Warren, Biden and Klobuchar combined and there was no motivation for Republicans to go out and vote
Warren was very gracious to Amy.
@kitt: NH will be a toss-up state in 2024 as it has been in recent elections. Amy and Liz are both gracious ladies—cept when talking about you know who.
An incredibly beautiful state with great history
“Live Free Or Die.”
@Richard Wheeler: Every state has its beauty, sad to see a state with that motto vote for the chains of socialism.
The candidates are thinning.
“Molon labe.”