Comments by "Clint Holmes" (@clintholmes2061) on "Status Coup News" channel.

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  24.  @TheMisfitPond  Forgive me for nitpicking and don't take this to mean that I don't think we are on the same team but I have no doubt that we are. I do tend to only focus on areas that I disagree. With that in mind... Regarding, " I don’t think they have all necessarily earned their right to be there." As for what "earned" means this is very subjective. I definitely don't think it means, they are a progressive even if I personally am a progressive and want those ideas center stage. It is arguably a good thing that some corporate dems are their to be punching bags and to give viewers some perspective on what the differences are. Regarding, "Most of them are only there because they sold out to corporate america." Yup. Mayor Pete is a great example of this. He's super young with little record and that record isn't good but corporate media loves him and are happy to talk about him. He is a prime example of a manufacturing consent for a candidate. Compare that to Bernie in 2016 when Ed Shultz was told NOT to cover him announcing his running. Regarding, "bernie, Warren and marrianne lol" Bernie is the man and clear choice. Warren has openly admitted that if she makes the general she will happily take legalized bribes. Their is a reason why the corporate media and wall street seem to be warming to her and those reasons are not good for true progressives. Marrianne is a decent person but the first thing she said about universal health care was ATROCIOUS. That and I think that a person should have at least some experience in politics before running for the highest political office in the land. I need a record or I have no good way to know if I'm dealing with (and this is hypothetical and not meant to be a definitive statement) a snake oil saleswomen who is only looking to increase their brand awareness and sell books.
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  37.  @d-risky4994  Just stop. Bernie has practically never left campaign mode after 2016. If she wanted to know if Bernie was running all she had to do was give him a call and he would have said yes. You are clearly reverse engineering things to say from a position of great bias. Regarding, "I have no doubt in my mind that when the time comes to drop out she will endorse Bernie" When the fuck do you suppose this will be? Before or after votes have been cast and the damage has been done? Even if she dropped out a week BEFORE anyone votes she will have arguably hurt Bernie's chances because (and it shouldn't be this way but it clearly is) momentum is important in politics. There is reason the corporate media tried to portray hillary as inevitable in 2016 and tries to portray biden as inevitable in 2020. There is reason they like to talk about skewed polls all the time and how biden is leading and shit like that. Their arguments are made better because tulsi is siphoning potential voters away from Bernie with every moment she is running. If tulsi were not in the race right now the vast majority of her supporters would be supporting sanders. They sure as fuck wouldn't be supporting biden. And whether or not you want to be intellectually honest enough to admit it that hurts Bernie, hurts his chances of winning the primary, and makes it more likely biden or another establishment shill wins the primary. Again, I love Tulsi. But she should be supporting sanders and not taking votes away from him in an election that we already know damn straight isn't fair.
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  38.  @d-risky4994  Regarding, "so you say Bernie never left campaign mode since 2016" Yup. Because the fact of the matter is that you and everyone had zero reason to think he wouldn't be running in 2020. Regarding, "I can say that since Tulsi and Bernie are friends that she might have more inside access to his campaign plans, indicating to me that he wasn’t sure enough to let his friends know his plan for 2020" Again you are trying to reverse engineer explanations to come to the conclusions you want. Tulsi actions are far better explained in that she knew Sanders was going to run and she just didn't give a fuck. And the exact same things can be said about Warren. Regarding, "there is no indication that she is cannibalizes Bernie votes" You are an idiot trying to make explanations that make no fucking sense. In reality comments such as Bernie/Tulsi 2020 and Tulsi/Bernie 2020 are very common and Tulsi/Biden 2020 is nonexistent. You know damn well they are running the same lane. Everything you say demonstrates you understand this reality. You call them "allies" in your original post. But you don't want to concede the fact that she is taking her voters from Bernie because you would then have to concede the reality that her campaign is hurting Bernie. Regarding, "and *SOME will continue to follow her if she backs out and supports Bernie" The majority of her supporters would back Bernie if dropped out today. That's the reality. Those are the facts. Are you first and foremost a Tulsi supporter? If she dropped out today who would you then be supporting in the "democratic" primary? Please answer those questions and please try to be intellectually honest while answering them. Regarding, "BUT WHY STOP NOW?" It's like I haven't already given you logical arguments as to why she should not being running and should be supporting Sanders. Oh wait... I already have. Do I really need to repeat all the logical reasons she should not be running? Regarding, "Her policies are vastly identical to Bernie’s policies" Yup. They are running the same lane, with the same policies, whose voters come from the exact same pool. Regarding, "she is better at presenting foreign policy blunders" Is she thou? Bernie has been preaching a message of peace for longer than Tulsi has been alive. Bernie voted against the Iraq war. Too bad Tulsi didn't listen to him or she might have avoided going to serve the MIC personally the way she did. Regarding, "can grow that message larger make her campaign LARGER" Her growth comes at Sanders expense. As I've already stated but you want to ignore the vast majority of her voters would be supporting Bernie if not for her. Because duh. Because facts. Because reality. Regarding, "SHE CAN RUN ON BERNIES TICKET." Makes no fucking sense and doesn't make more sense because it's written in all caps. It's not like she needs a campaign to be considered for this. I'm actually far more fond of Bernie picking someone like Nina Turner to be his running mate because she is doing the right thing and supporting Sanders and helping him while Tulsi is hurting him, opposing him, and making it more likely an establishment shill gets the nomination. Would Sanders be better if Nina were running against him? Of course not. Because reality. Because he, and the country, are better with her supporting Sanders and not opposing him. And the same concepts apply for Tulsi. Regarding, "But we need Tulsi to overtake Warren and/or Harris first" You make no motherfucking sense. If tulsi ever gets this big she has even more reason to keep campaigning, keep opposing sanders, and keep siphoning votes away from him in a world where progressives would be wise to coalesce around the clear leader of the progressive movement. Regarding, "WE NEED TO KEEP TULSI IN THE FUCKING RACE SO JUST STOP SHOOTING YOURSELF IN YOUR “INTELLECTUALLY HONEST” FOOT AND GIVE TULSI A SINGLE FUCKING DOLLAR" The irony is something. In reality you are shooting yourself in the foot. You and tulsi are splitting the progressive movement, you are making it more likely an establishment fuck like biden wins, and the sooner tulsi gets out of the way and endorses sanders, like she should have just done from the get go, the better. Every dollar I'm giving in this election cycle is going to Sanders because he is our best hope of getting a progressive in the WH. All progressives, peasants and politicians, would be wise to be working toward that goal while Tulsi is siphoning votes from him. Our best chance is unifying. Because duh. Do the world a favor and realize this sooner rather than later.
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  39.  @d-risky4994  Regarding, " you’re feelings are getting in the way of reason" The irony. Regarding, "I very easily donated money to both Sanders and Gabbard" Fine. You know why you pick those 2? Because they are in the same motherfucking lane and you damn well know it. But you want to lie about the fact that they share the same voter pool because of what that reality means. Regarding, "Because as you’ve said they are in the same lane, on the same ideological team." Cool. Obviously. No shit. But in reality only one of them can win the primary. I can only vote for one of them. I need to pick a side. I don't get to have my cake and eat it to. Your original post you call them allies. But they are not even if they are in the same lane. The primary is a war where only one gets to win. They are on OPPOSITE SIDES trying to win over voters from the same lane. You know who really is an ally of Bernie? Nina Turner. Because that's the reality that you want to ignore. Regarding, "Show the country that those who follow the true progressive path are rewarded with support so it pushes out charlatans like Warren and Harris." You want to know one of the ways I determine if people like Warren and Harris are charlatans? I ask myself if I think that what they are doing is in progressives interest. Well Gabbard isn't working in progressives interest anymore than Warren and Harris are when it comes to opposing Sanders. ALL OF THEM ARE OPPOSING HIM. I've picked my team. I'm on team Bernie Sanders. And as much as I love Tulsi she is taking a knife and plunging it in his back at the moment. You never answer any of my questions. I don't just ask them rhetorically ya know. There are points embedded in them. Regarding, "Because while you keep saying that Tulsi voters are stealing from Bernie, I’m saying that donating $1 isn’t voting" The principles are IDENTICAL. Both are ways of showing support. Tulsi isn't getting a dime from me. I was on her mailing list. I sent her an email about 2 weeks before she announced her running and begged her not to run. I begged her not split progressive support. Don't get me wrong, it's not like I thought she was going to read it much less have it affect her, but I have understood the pitfalls of splitting the progressive vote going in. I wasn't just going to act like I didn't think she was fucking over Bernie while she was fucking him over because I want to like her. SHE'S FUCKING UP. Why the fuck would I want to support that? How the fuck do you think that makes any motherfucking sense? Regarding, "I’m saying that two ideological allies working to steal voters from Biden, Warren, & Harris" YOU ARE AN IDIOT. How the fuck did you end up on the smart team? It's like you have no fucking clue how elections work and how votes are distributed. I don't know how to make my points anymore clear so that you might understand them. Regarding, "then joining forces to win the nomination" What the fuck are you talking about? Candidates don't get to share delegates. Regarding, "Bernie’s biggest weakness is that he believes the other people on that stage are his friends" I am dumbfounded by how idiotic I find the things you say. The guy who calls for a "political revolution," the guy who was fucked over in the primary in 2016, the guy who goes out of his way to call himself an independent, the guy who has been smeared constantly since the beginning of time, the guy who is constantly bombard by "gotcha" questions believes the other people on that stage are his friends? What the fuck are you smoking? As always you have conclusions that you want to get to and just trying say anything to justify getting there. In reality the shit you say makes no motherfucking sense and it is beyond infuriating. I mean, I'm used to this type of stupid shit coming from trump supporters and Hillary/biden fans but coming from an "ally" this type of stupidity makes me want to shake a baby. Regarding, "he doesn’t smear or attack, even when it is justified... he plays on the defensive all the time" You almost said something that wasn't completely moronic and then you went and fucked it up. Yes smearing and attacking isn't his thing. But it's not about being "defensive." It's about presenting his vision for the future. And you know what? It works. He doesn't need to tear people down because what people crave, even if they don't realize it, is a vision for the future, a plan for things to come, and substantive ways he might make their lives better. If you want a cunt whose who plan is smearing, tearing down others, and attacking constantly you may as well go support Trump because that's all he does. Sanders on the other hand would rather tell you how he is going to improve your life rather tell you why the other person sucks. It's just another way he is different than the average politician and just another reason why he is the fucking man. Regarding, "There is no way he calls out Warren for her hawkishness." Thank god we had Tulsi on the debate stage with warren so that she could take him down a peg. Oh wait... Warren had a great night overall while Tulsi shit the bed until she had a moment taking down a clown whose name I don't even remember at the moment. Even Warren raised her hand to give the private health insurance industry the finger while tulsi disappointed me so much I wanted to break my tv. Regarding, "You’re not being intellectually honest by questioning Tulsi’s superiority on foreign policy," Really? Because I gave a couple pretty good reasons why I question her superiority on the matter. First she enabled the MIC personally through her service and secondly her experience preaching a message of peace is nothing compared to Bernie who has been advocating for peace his whole life. The best argument that can be made for her "superiority" is that foreign policy is the only topic she really wants to talk about. Shit even when asked about the gender pay gap she thought giving her military resume would be a good idea when Bernie would have actually answered the question given to him. Regarding, "Bernie paints his foreign policy in broad strokes, she actually fleshes out who, how, and why." American's don't give a fuck about the details. They want a president who brings the troops home and spends the country wealth on them rather than in foreign lands. They don't give a fuck about the nuances between sunni and shia. Please answer some questions for me. If Joe Biden ran in 2016 would that have been a game changer to the election to the detriment of Hillary? Assuming you realize this would have been a detriment to Hillary, how is this situation significantly different than what Tulsi is doing to Bernie? Would Bernie Sanders be better off if Nina Turner would be running against him instead of being busy fighting in his corner? How is this situation different than Tulsi? Do you understand that progressives are a finite number of voters? And they only get one vote to cast? Would Bernie Sanders be better off if Warren were not running? Especially when lots of her supporters consider themselves to be progressives? How is this significantly different than what Tulsi is doing? Do you understand that candidates cannot give their pledged delegates to one another? That the ability of any individual progressive candidate's chances are diminished when they have to share their voter pool? As I write these I can already imagine the contrived, terrible answers that you are going to give as you do anything and everything to desperately concoct answers that suit the conclusions you want to come to. I'm not proofreading any of that. I've already wasted far too much time on you already.
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