Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "The Rational National" channel.

  1.  @ericquiabazza2608  the judge has a vested interest as everyone in that courtroom prosecution included that rittenhouse walk. They don't want to give validity to what's behind it all which is the protest against the corrupt judicial system and police brutality and the call for reform of that. They need the protests and reforms to be marginalized and tamped down. Rittenhouse trial is just a circus to make people lose sight of the real issue.
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  2. Now mass shooters have a plan - shoot one person claiming they were going for their gun and made some death threats no one verify against then kill anyone who tries to stop you further using the self defense excuse
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  3.  @mattw7057  Running off by himself for one. Why wasn't he with his militia buddies? If he were actually in the military, he'd be court-martialed for disobeying orders and being unaccountable
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  4. a question that needs to be asked is why was kyle walking around alone? Was he given orders by his militia sergeant to go on solo recon? Why wasn't he with the others? This makes me think we was looking for trouble and to flex his AR15 muscle.
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  5. agreed. We can debate what rosenbaum's intentions were, we'll never know but after rittenhouse killed him from the perspective of the crowd he was a lone gunman and a dangerous one at that. He had no badge, uniform, or ID to show he was on any side thus making him more of a danger. Huber didn't attack him a skateboard because rittenhouse was on the cop's side but because he had shot someone. The same with the man who aimed a gun at him. But for some reason conservatives won't allow them self defense because reasons (they're lefties). In a sane country, he probably get off for the first shooting but the second one he'd likely get something like manslaughter or something along that line. Here though they'll probably not even give him a lick of punishment.
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  6. Remember when people were upset with Bernie for not backing her enough or going on shows like Jimmy Dore to spread his message? Man, has Bernie been vindicated in keeping his distance from "allies" like that. If they were so willing to turn to the Right because Bernie didn't show them enough love they obviously weren't very progressive in the first place and Bernie saw thru them a lot better than many back then. I also remember how much vitriol Kasparian and Vigeland got for their early suspicions of Tulsi. They too were vindicated.
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  7.  @mattw7057  again why was Rittenhouse alone? If he was threatened that rosenbaum would kill him if he was alone, don't you think he would have stayed with his group?
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  8. Centrists have really shown how deplorable they are. They're nothing but tribalists who think they have some kind of moral high ground but this election cycle has ripped the mask off of them
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  9.  @cjking9693  you think they'd care? More protests mean more money for police and prisons and whatever other private group wants in on it like the weird holding facilities they have scooped lefty protestors into before. Plus militia can shoot at will and claim self defense
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  10. Nothing identified Rittenhouse as any kind of law enforcement official (which he wasn't). He was just a lone gunman walking around the crowd. What Rosenbaum was thinking we'll never know because Rittenhouse felt like shooting him 4 times killing him. Rosenbaum might have thought of disarming a potential threat. It's all conjecture but the 2nd and 3rd victims were after Rittenhouse had shot and killed Rosenbaum. Why they don't know. They only know there's a person with a gun who had shot someone. The next group that attacked him did so based on his actions. Then he killed another person which brought about his 3rd victim to pull a gun which he did not fire but Rittenhouse did once again fortunately not killing him. Beyond just what Rittenhouse did, why did Kenosha allowed unqualified unvetted unauthorized untrained unaccountable militia patrol the streets with guns? And who thought having a 17 year old there was a good idea? And back to Rittenhouse - why was he alone when he was confronted? Why wasn't he with his other militia members? Was he looking for trouble? In the military you don't wander off without orders and neither do police in a protest situation. Where was the accountability of knowing where everyone was?
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  11.  @chibimonster_tv5827  that's so weird and obscure but it makes more sense than demanding someone who wears glasses to remove them because reasons
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  12.  @GoatOfTheMountains  no one is defending Rosenbaum as a good person. Try to get it thru your thick bloodlust skull that people prefer to live in a civilized society of laws and not one of vigilante justice where people take the law into their own hands.
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  13.  @GoatOfTheMountains  it is vigilantism because you refuse to see the bigger picture - Rittenhouse should have never been allowed to be there in the 1st place nor any of his militia buddies.
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  14. yeah I don't get the glasses thing - who demands someone take off their glasses in a discussion/debate? It's not like they're shields or give Intellect points like some video game item.
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  15.  @ferko6  just drink the last cup of kool-aid your master Trump gives you and be gone with you
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  16.  @GoatOfTheMountains  talk about stupid responses. You can't get it that people don't want your brand of vigilante justice.
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  17.  @cjking9693  The DNC is also complicit as Biden's Crime Bill helped a lot to make matters worse leading to our current police state with massive incarceration. However it is the rank and file of the GOP who advocate for vigilante militia style justice that is more worrisome. They want Rittenhouse to be justified so they can be justified. They're bloodthristy.
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  18.  @kylequest  no, he means Bernie Sanders the man with the most individual donors who has progressive endorsement in the US and abroad
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  19. Uh...Not Trump? That's a policy right?
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  20.  @BobbyJ1998  which is why I wish a lot of those boomers just stayed home. As bad as not voting, ill-informed ignorant voting doesn't help either as those people wanting someone nice landed us with a senile candidate with a bad record and several allegations of sexual misconduct. Great job, guys!
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  21. At this point though Joe can lie convincingly because he doesn't remember it ever happening any more than he remembers his breakfast this morning
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  22.  @AvroBellow  They're kind of like Ahab going after the White Whale of Bernie not caring they are sinking their ship at the same time.
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  23.  @kaykeelan3765  one can only hope but rightwing militias more serve the status quo than liberal reformers. Their worry is that if the protests receive more validity from average Americans something actually might get done which would upset a lot of apple carts. Militia types are too stupid to see the real problems of systemic corruption in need of reform and they can be used by the authorities unofficially to keep people in line out of fear.
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  24. well that doesn't show guilt at all
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  25. plus he was with a whole militia who had no business being there
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  26.  @GoatOfTheMountains  you're missing the point by a mile.
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  27.  @stevensosa7  you don't understand the word vigilante, do you? Vigilantism is when people take the law into their own hands. The protestors don't fit that description no matter how much you fail to understand that.
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  28. In their effort to beat Sanders, the DNC has gone scorched earth to point of destroying whatever moral high ground they pretended to have. Now the GOP will feel even more embolden to ignore any complaint by the DNC because their hypocrisy is on full display. They've utterly destroyed the metoo movement as no one will believe them anymore.
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  29.  @spencerharmon4669  bingo! It's all dog whistles with them and they know exactly what they mean. Self defense is only for them to use to justify their killing of undesirables.
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  30. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein in real life in the form of the GOP base. The GOP bred and fed this monster for decades then Trump Pie-Piper'ed them away and now they are turning on their creators. Brilliant!
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  31. you need some salt for that mental pretzel you've twisted yourself into?
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  32. Dick Van Dyke is 15 years older and I would trust him to be president over Biden
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  33. Watching a bully run from a fight is always hilarious.
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  34. Tis Treason, Sirrah!
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  35. pretty easy job - take any positive news of Bernie and spin it negatively. "Bernie gets $25Million in Q3 fund raising? Headline - Bernie falls short of $30 million! Will he drop out?"
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  36. And two years later Hillary shows up to muck up the primaries with baseless smears of certain candidates and yet she is not a knowing agent of chaos?
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  37. more overtly fascist as they have always been fascist
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  38. That's why it's important to get people out to vote. It's easier to steal a close election than a landslide. The real problem is they'll ignore the popular vote like the GOP and focus their cheating energies on key areas and super delegates. Expect media blackouts, voter roll purges, poll closings or not even opened, "incompetent" ballot handling in these places.
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  39. awesome! This kind of thing will sideswipe the DNC if Republicans switch and vote for Bernie in the primaries.
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  40. It's now at 8 million and in his top ten most viewed videos. Meanwhile #myberniestory trended at #1 on twitter today yet the media will act like Bernie is not electable. Where are any of the other candidates including Warren creating this kind of fire? Only in the polls is Bernie somehow behind.
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  41. But his supporters want and have always wanted this kind of government so long as they feel they are near the top
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  42.  @stevensosa7  there's no point in discussing with someone who doesn't understand basic definitions
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  43. And they are so bloody obstinate in their nothing burger. Media brainwashing is so effective in the US for those above 50 on both sides of the political fence.
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  44.  @WeatheringHeights1  it says that rightwing mobs rule because at the end of the day these idiots support the status quo even as they die because of it and they are willing to kill those dissent.
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  45. As they say in the UK, everything is about to go tits up if we don't do anything about climate change.
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  46. Biden is likely to lose the popular vote out of apathy. He has no fire and certainly not his supporters. Warren I can see winning the popular vote but still losing the Electoral. Trump will savage her on her waffling record. She showed how she played his game with the whole DNA thing. She doesn't have the same fire as Bernie nor does she inspire people to the level of Bernie. To beat a fake populist with an inflamed base you need a real populist with an inspired base.
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  47. it's funny as they don't care about principles/ethics when Crowder is ignoring such things but now suddenly they are all serious outraged - FFS they have no shame or self awareness
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  48. how have they destroyed it? FYI it's been deteriorating for a long time but fools drunk on Obama Hope Juice think it was better before Trump. Wages have long stagnated, healthcare costs have been astronomical for decades, we've been at war for 2 straight decades, our infrastructure has been crumbling for decades. Trump is the symptom of the rot not the source.
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  49. maybe they plan to do a switcheroo after the convention - get Biden nominate, then have him declared unfit, have his VP pick run in his stead with a new VP. Could be how they got Buttigieg to drop out before Super Tuesday promising him a slice of this action.
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  50.  @AlanDantes76  funny how no one else ended up in Rittenhouse's situation thru-out the whole thing. And burn your strawman about Rosenbaum. No one is saying he was some good guy. You lot can't understand that we prefer to live in a country of laws and not a country of arbitrary vigilante whims.
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  51.  @snoopy_peanuts_77  She thinks it's 2016 apparently not realizing this shit is going to work a second time around
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  52.  @zotaninoron3548  Littlefinger post season 4 - earlier season Littlefinger would have been more competent at it
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  53. The primary is the real fight and where they'll try to rig it. The General will be a breeze.
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  54. DNC and corporate media will try to rob him. Right now they are the ones to worry about. The general will be generally a breeze.
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  55. The elite are insane. All they care about is maintaining their power and continually growing their wealth, wealth they could never spend in several lifetimes. They will let the world burn so they can make a few million on a Tuesday. It's just a game they play with little consequences to them until they wake up and realize they can't eat money and the rest of the world (what's left of it) has reverted to trade&barter of necessity goods like drinkable water and food.
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  56.  @keldenrobertson7894  and those who stood to vote and worked the polling stations in the midst of the pandemic a significant number of them won't be here sad to say come November.
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  57.  @Lola_Santoro  that's why this case is so important because if rittenhouse gets off relatively lightly this will embolden further vigilantism thru these militias under the guise of self defense.
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  58. Maybe I'm crazy and living in a bubble overseas but none of the other candidates including Warren seem to be generating the same level of excitement that Bernie has. None of them have had any major news-worthy event save a sound bite or two unlike Bernie. Forget his meteoric rise in 2015-2016 from obscurity to household name despite having media and the DNC against him. Just recently he has knocked it out of the park from going into the Lion's Den of Fox News and converting some of the lions to having it revealed he has the largest individual donors across the country to him going on Joe Rogan and in less than a week getting over 8.2 million views and a lot of positive comments from people who would normally be against him to starting #myberniestory which shot to trending #1 nationally and #3 internationally on twitter. How can you ignore this and not think the polls seem strange? Is Biden generating this kind of excitement? The more he speaks the more his polls dip. I don't understand how Warren could be beating him in some polls. The excitement is still with Bernie and the media hates this. I fear it's just going to get uglier and we have to be vigilant.
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  59.  @poeticgangsta6616  you centrists really are blind aren't you? You can't comprehend that wins in a primary especially in red states like Biden has done do not equate to a win in the general. You outsmarted yourself, dumbass.
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  60. smearing by bringing up the truth?
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  61. If Trump is still there for the General, he'd attack her from the left being a former Reagan-voting Republican and voting for his military budget. And of course he'll make fun of her for the DNA thing when she took his bait. It won't be pretty.
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  62. he's friends with all them on Facebook
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  63.  @robertnicholls9917  like Trump will agree to that?
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  64.  @Tpoleful  good point. As bad as Trump is, he knows how to market. Both he and Bernie had official and unofficial slogans that spoke of teamwork and a vision. Hillary? "I'm with Her" and the unofficial "It's her time." FFS her campaign team really really sucked.
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  65. This cult needs to Jim Jones Jungle Juice Jam themselves already
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  66. And Biden has same record he can attack on trade and war. Dementia is icing on the cake. Trump may have dementia but he was very lucid and on point at that Townhall while Biden only spoke 7 minutes and still flubbed it.
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  67. I've said it before and I'll say it again - Bernie inspires people to better themselves and work for others while Trump enflames people to be angry at others and the other DNC candidates only inspire a cure for insomnia.
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  68.  @DogTrekker  their lucrative Plan B
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  69. you're both right
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  70. The only people who are clutching the pearls over this are the disingenuous people who have always been against Bernie no matter what. The faux outrage is disgusting but expected from this lot. Now watch them call for unity after this shit.
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  71. Difference with Hillary is I actually thought she'd win (and looking at Trump's face that night, he did too) but Joe is such a bad candidate even against someone like Trump. Centrists are playing the Emperor's New Clothes as they push an unfit candidate with a bad record on trade, social security, war votes, civil rights, crime, etc...plus he has allegations of sexual misconduct and to top it off he is showing clear signs of dementia. It doesn't help that he isn't very inspiring either. We have to bern this shit down before centrists ruin everything.
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  72. Libertarianism is a selfish self-centered ideology (if you can call such loosely-based ill-defined ideas an ideology) without empathy that has no place in a functioning society.
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  73.  @stevensosa7  but those people were not allowed to be there by the cops now were? Apples and Oranges. We are talking about vigilantes doing the police's job
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  74. If Warren were capable of self reflection she'd realize how so many of her decisions from 2015 onward have been so damningly wrong. The irony of all this is that Bernie was right. Had she run in 2016 she had a good chance of winning the primary and likely the General. She had the name recognition and the support of many progressives without the baggage of both HRC and the DNC. HRC wouldn't have been able use accusations of misogyny or racism against her. HRC would have had to get more vicious which likely would have backfired more than it did against Bernie. Even if she lost the primary and Hillary went on to lose the General, she'd be in a much better situation now in such a scenario than she currently is. If anything, it just shows how Warren is not the candidate to go up against Trump or to take the Oval Office as she has shown herself to be a terrible decision-maker.
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  75. Point of order - the English monarchy is NOT rooted in colonialism, white supremacy, and racism. It's rooted in French kicking English ass at Hastings in 1066 and currently in Germans being the only cousins left on the withered vine of royal lineage.
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  76. Omar has the right attitude. The GOP has devolved into schoolyard bullies and being civil with bullies never works. Forget the high road crap. We're dealing with lunatics and traitors who think they are on some religious patriotic quest. They need to be knocked back hard.
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  77. How can progressives rally behind someone completely opposite of their principles? And I don't mean Trump as that's already a given but Biden is barely much better in regards to record. The DNC actually has given us an even worse candidate than Hillary like a big FU to progressives. And when you add in rape allegations and dementia, how are you going to get independent voters and apathetics to get out there and vote for this guy?
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  78. Media: Buttigieg surges ahead 2 points! Oh, and meanwhile Sanders is apparently at 85% but lets move on to an amusing story about a dog raised as a cat...
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  79. It really shows how pathetic they must think their chosen candidate is when they have to "accidentally" steal her opponent's strong and well-said statement and pass it off as her to make people think she's a fighter. When you can't find such a statement in your candidate's rhetoric you have to wonder if they are fit to go to the general. I think it funny that Warren came off particularly weak this night hence why they thought she needed some help.
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  80. They are so desperate they are using the 2016 playbook yet again. Hopefully though this will bring more of her supporters over to Bernie but she will likely support Biden when she drops out.
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  81. Conservatives have a tendency to pick the strangest hills to die on for their poor understanding of freedom.
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  82. Now the smears will come in worse. It'll be funny as it will be sad to see them use the very same tactics of Fox which they claim to hate. They'll smear supporters from big ones like Cenk Uyger to random individuals. The biggest smear they and their deluded centrist followers will throw is a shallow comparison with Trump supporters. What they fail to understand is the huge difference - an inclusive movement fighting against climate change and the status quo that causes many Americans to die and/or go bankrupt from medical problems as well as a status quo that continues to pour billions into endless wars for the sake of profit of military contractors. But this will fall on the deaf ears of centrists who are almost as hostile to the idea of progressive change as a Trump supporter is leaving water in the desert for people fleeing violence in their countries due to US's failed war on drugs policies. The thing to do is to individually register and get people out on the day of voting in your area.
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  83. It's easy to say you support something while the party you actually supports does the complete opposite. How much does Poole actually do within conservative circles to push those ideas? Probably not much if at all.
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  84. It's crazy that Canada doesn't shooting stats per capita like the US! Don't they know that the air of freedom is peppered with gun smoke and screams?
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  85. Thanks to an incompetent corrupt DNC and clueless ill-informed centrist voters we are back to 2016 where we are in danger to losing to Trump again and like 2016 these idiots don't realize that danger.
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  86. A Biden townhall would not go over so well I imagine
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  87. With Rogan supporting Bernie and more importantly out-of-touch folks like NYT, Hillary, the View, etc... actively not supporting him it looks better in the eyes of people fed up with the status quo.
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  88. Biden couldn't outsmart a can opener at this point. The DNC put all their effort behind Biden after SC to drag him to the finish line.
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  89.  @poeticgangsta6616  yeah a conservative state that hasn't been blue since 1976! Incredible strategy there for a Democrat!
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  90. They are paid to have no shame.
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  91. If Biden passed away tomorrow, MSNBC would say "Biden's campaign still going strong despite a life-impairment setback."
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  92. If the DNC and their bought media really wanted to beat Trump, they'd back Bernie or rather they would let the primary run its course and not ignore or smear him. They'd rather lose to Trump because they can keep their tax breaks and maintain some power pretending to lead the resistance against Trump.
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  93. like Tucker Carlson
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  94.  @timn5008  nah, the master stroke is when Biden's VP now filling his shoes names as their VP Hillary Clinton! With massive amount of cheating and cutting a backroom deal with Trump to absolve him of debts and crimes, Trump "loses" then the DNC president goes into a gloriously corrupt administration but more slick than the previous one until they meet with an unfortunate accident in their first year and Hillary "has to for the good of the country" become President. Bodies start piling up everywhere and the GOP are too afraid to oppose her. Bernie flees to Switzerland under an assumed name. And we all smile and say "It's a good thing that Hillary is our President! A very good thing!"
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  95. Cory takes votes (a very few) from the other centrists so he should stay in the race as long as possible
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  96. For the people saying Trump has dementia he was obviously able to hold it together in that Town Hall whereas Biden's last public address was 7 minutes and he still flubbed it. The DNC should be prosecuted for elderly abuse and people should vote the corrupt leadership out. They are leading us to disaster and too many of the voters are so damn stubborn in their uninformed opinion and fear of Trump that they are voting for someone with a spotty record&mind whom they have been deluded into thinking can win. The DNC obviously doesn't care so long as Bernie is shut down. FFS for future primary voters get out and vote and drag your friends who support Bernie but can't be trusted to actually go to the booth on their own! If friends are supporting Biden just ask them to name two of his policies they agree with (or even know) that is more than just Not Trump.
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  97. It's funny because they said that shit about Obama then they turn around bleating like sheep over Trump.
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  98. he's conveniently ignoring it
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  99. All you have to do is look at his record and know he's been on the right side of the history long before most of his Democratic opponents. Unless you like the status quo there is no reason to vote for someone else.
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  100. I'm starting to think they are using Biden's electability amongst deluded centrist democrats after SC to get him the nomination then have him drop out for health reasons - suddenly a cognitive test is done declaring him unfit. Now his VP pick one of the unelectable candidates will "have to" run in Biden's stead such as Harris and with a new VP like Buttigieg or Klobuchar. It could explain why Buttigieg dropped out before Super Tuesday despite being in a strong 3rd position. It's crazy but I considering what the DNC did last and on Super Tuesday I wouldn't put it past them.
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  101. They act as though regulations came about because the government felt like regulating for nefarious purposes rather than an outcry from the public from companies exploiting their workers and putting out defective products. Roosevelt didn't create the FDA because he wanted to be a tyrant but because people were up in arms after Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" made them sick to their stomach.
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  102. The DNC is terrified of its base because they know they don't really represent the majority of them. The only ones who feel represented are privileged virtue-signaling liberals who think they are centrists. When this group says Bernie is not a Democrat I like to fire back with "neither are you! And do you even know what a Democrat is?" For many of them it's just a team jersey and a "Not GOP"
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  103. I hope they rise up so we can mow the traitors down. Diehard Trumpsters aren't going down easily so why not remove Trump before the 20th to incite them into further treasonous actions then act accordingly?
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  104.  @NonDelusional74611  true because they'd rather have Trump so they can get both their tax breaks and pretend they are leading the resistance
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  105. maybe they're hoping if he gets the nomination but "suddenly" has to drop out in August for medical reasons, his VP will take over for him be it Hillary or Harris with a new centrist VP like Klobuchar or Buttigieg.
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  106. This pandemic has really shown how horribly out of touch the elites are on both the right and the left. Whether it be singing from their mansions in rooms they've never stepped into before or saying they are ok with the elderly dying so that the stock market stays healthy or thinking medicare for all is just a political ploy. Bernie needs to stay in not only to move Biden to the left especially on healthcare but in case Biden completely falls apart between now and the convention - and no we aren't taking a last minute substitute like Cuomo.
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  107. Clown world, man 🤡
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  108. Centralist - UGH! Can Bernie just go away already? So what if he has more individual donors and raised the most money? Who cares that he got major endorsements after his heart attack then had the largest rally crowd of any other candidate? He's irrelevant and no cares about him. I mean all my friends in the Hamptons don't like him and I think he's a Russian Asset too. We need to beat Trump and a guy who has more followers on social media than the other candidates is not going to do it. We need super delegates and billionaires. Centralist 2020!
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  109. A number of Trump I've seen they mainly like him because he pisses off the libs! That's a pretty shitty reason to support a political leader. And they wonder why everyone else thinks they are kind of stupid.
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