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Essential "The Real Truth Is Wall Street Regulates Congress": The Offical Bernie Sanders CircleJerk Thread
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pathetic... but if you're in Congress and can't make a change in 17 years... time to bounce
What's pathetic is we have a country where health care isn't a right but a privilege
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Tim Canova lost against DWS. Old nikkas enjoy losses.
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Handmade in USA
Hate to say it but you cant fight the market here. Nor where you are.
I really hope she wins in November.
I think Jordan did before her primary but yea another one is due.TYT needs to interview her
Progressives pass baton
The crowd of hundreds of college students — dotted here and there by retirees — rallied with feverish energy in a small park here on Friday morning for their political folk hero.
Their chants of "Ber-NIE! Ber-NIE!" were reminiscent of a time in the spring when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders angled to win New York's Democratic presidential primary, a victory that could have fundamentally shifted the momentum of his challenge to Hillary Clinton.
Yet in the 19th Congressional District, Sanders doesn't want to be the sole focus anymore.
"That 'Bernie' has now got to be transferred to, 'Zephyr,' " Sanders said, his thick Brooklyn accent cropping the "R" off Zephyr Teachout's name ("Zephuh") throughout his remarks.
The underlying message of Friday's rally was that the progressives' goals, if not their names, are interchangeable.
Central to the campaigns of both Sanders and Teachout is the contention that regular people have been shut out of the political process. Then again, that has become the platform du jour for candidates of all political stripes this year — including Republican Donald Trump, who occupies the opposite end of the political spectrum from Sanders' supporters.
Sanders reiterated his belief that this year's election is a battle between billionaires and the people. That messaging may as well have been taken from Teachout's own playbook, with the candidate making official corruption (and related campaign finance issues) the hallmarks of her own bid for office.
"We've gotta take on the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics," Teachout said, quoting former New York Gov. (and President) Teddy Roosevelt.
Teachout pledged she would "take on the billionaires and replace them with people power" and bring with her to Washington the residents of the 19th District.
Sanders said Teachout would stand out in Congress.
"You will have a leader who has the guts to stand up to the billionaire class and tell these greedy people that they cannot have it all," he said. "You will have a congresswoman who understands that grass-roots democracy and bringing our people together and mobilizing people is the only way that real change ever, ever takes place."
Embracing Sanders poses challenges for Teachout. He remains a polarizing figure on the right, and Teachout's Republican opponent John Faso was quick to assert that Sanders is "the nation's preeminent socialist."
"One of the major problems in the country, as I said yesterday, is that we don't have enough cooperation across party lines," Faso said after the rally, referencing a Thursday debate in which he compared Teachout's left-leaning policy prescriptions to the far-right leaning congressional Freedom Caucus that includes acolytes of the tea party movement. In the process, Faso painted himself as a more center-right Republican similar to the district's popular congressman, Rep. Chris Gibson.
"I don't view compromise as a dirty word," Faso said at a news conference at a firehouse on the other side of New Paltz. "... And I see professor Teachout as, frankly, being a far-left radical who has a gauzy and idealist and dreamy view of how the world should look like. But it's not a practical solution to fixing the problems that we face."
In a district led for the past six years by a Republican ranked as one of Congress' most bipartisan members, Teachout's latest effort to fire up her base likely needs to be parried by striking the moderate tone that has helped Gibson gain such popularity.
Both Teachout and Faso seek the support of about 26,000 unaffiliated voters in the district, where the Republicans have a roughly 2,300-voter advantage (another 10,000 voters are Conservative Party members). The district includes all of Columbia, Greene, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties, and parts of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery and Rensselaer counties.
If there are coattail effects of the top of the ticket in November, it's possible voters alienated by both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Trump might gravitate toward a congressional candidate blessed by Sanders, given his appeal to those who feel alienated by politicians in general.
Siena College's March poll of voters statewide showed 53 percent of independents have a favorable view of Sanders, compared to 39 percent who had that view of Clinton and 32 percent who felt that way about Trump.
While there has yet to be public polling on the 19th District general election, Siena's June primary polling showed that self-described moderate Democrats and Republicans viewed Sanders in at least a somewhat favorable light. Sanders was viewed favorably by 62 percent of moderate Democrats and by 38 percent of Republicans — more than double the number of moderate GOP voters who viewed Clinton favorably.
Regardless of how far from center she may skew, Teachout on Friday elicited a comparison to a popular Democrat who represented the Hudson Valley, Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley in Congress for 20 years.
"Zephyr's a great replacement for Maurice Hinchey, who was our liberal hero," said rally attendee Rocco Rizzo, an Ulster County resident who sported a "Sanders for President" T-shirt beneath a jean jacket bearing a "Teachout for Congress" sticker.
"Hinchey also voted with his conscience and not the party," Rizzo said.
The crowd of hundreds of college students — dotted here and there by retirees — rallied with feverish energy in a small park here on Friday morning for their political folk hero.
Their chants of "Ber-NIE! Ber-NIE!" were reminiscent of a time in the spring when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders angled to win New York's Democratic presidential primary, a victory that could have fundamentally shifted the momentum of his challenge to Hillary Clinton.
Yet in the 19th Congressional District, Sanders doesn't want to be the sole focus anymore.
"That 'Bernie' has now got to be transferred to, 'Zephyr,' " Sanders said, his thick Brooklyn accent cropping the "R" off Zephyr Teachout's name ("Zephuh") throughout his remarks.
The underlying message of Friday's rally was that the progressives' goals, if not their names, are interchangeable.
Central to the campaigns of both Sanders and Teachout is the contention that regular people have been shut out of the political process. Then again, that has become the platform du jour for candidates of all political stripes this year — including Republican Donald Trump, who occupies the opposite end of the political spectrum from Sanders' supporters.
Sanders reiterated his belief that this year's election is a battle between billionaires and the people. That messaging may as well have been taken from Teachout's own playbook, with the candidate making official corruption (and related campaign finance issues) the hallmarks of her own bid for office.
"We've gotta take on the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics," Teachout said, quoting former New York Gov. (and President) Teddy Roosevelt.
Teachout pledged she would "take on the billionaires and replace them with people power" and bring with her to Washington the residents of the 19th District.
Sanders said Teachout would stand out in Congress.
"You will have a leader who has the guts to stand up to the billionaire class and tell these greedy people that they cannot have it all," he said. "You will have a congresswoman who understands that grass-roots democracy and bringing our people together and mobilizing people is the only way that real change ever, ever takes place."
Embracing Sanders poses challenges for Teachout. He remains a polarizing figure on the right, and Teachout's Republican opponent John Faso was quick to assert that Sanders is "the nation's preeminent socialist."
"One of the major problems in the country, as I said yesterday, is that we don't have enough cooperation across party lines," Faso said after the rally, referencing a Thursday debate in which he compared Teachout's left-leaning policy prescriptions to the far-right leaning congressional Freedom Caucus that includes acolytes of the tea party movement. In the process, Faso painted himself as a more center-right Republican similar to the district's popular congressman, Rep. Chris Gibson.
"I don't view compromise as a dirty word," Faso said at a news conference at a firehouse on the other side of New Paltz. "... And I see professor Teachout as, frankly, being a far-left radical who has a gauzy and idealist and dreamy view of how the world should look like. But it's not a practical solution to fixing the problems that we face."
In a district led for the past six years by a Republican ranked as one of Congress' most bipartisan members, Teachout's latest effort to fire up her base likely needs to be parried by striking the moderate tone that has helped Gibson gain such popularity.
Both Teachout and Faso seek the support of about 26,000 unaffiliated voters in the district, where the Republicans have a roughly 2,300-voter advantage (another 10,000 voters are Conservative Party members). The district includes all of Columbia, Greene, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties, and parts of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery and Rensselaer counties.
If there are coattail effects of the top of the ticket in November, it's possible voters alienated by both Democrat Hillary Clinton and Trump might gravitate toward a congressional candidate blessed by Sanders, given his appeal to those who feel alienated by politicians in general.
Siena College's March poll of voters statewide showed 53 percent of independents have a favorable view of Sanders, compared to 39 percent who had that view of Clinton and 32 percent who felt that way about Trump.
While there has yet to be public polling on the 19th District general election, Siena's June primary polling showed that self-described moderate Democrats and Republicans viewed Sanders in at least a somewhat favorable light. Sanders was viewed favorably by 62 percent of moderate Democrats and by 38 percent of Republicans — more than double the number of moderate GOP voters who viewed Clinton favorably.
Regardless of how far from center she may skew, Teachout on Friday elicited a comparison to a popular Democrat who represented the Hudson Valley, Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley in Congress for 20 years.
"Zephyr's a great replacement for Maurice Hinchey, who was our liberal hero," said rally attendee Rocco Rizzo, an Ulster County resident who sported a "Sanders for President" T-shirt beneath a jean jacket bearing a "Teachout for Congress" sticker.
"Hinchey also voted with his conscience and not the party," Rizzo said.
Teachout 2024 
I'm just wondering who will primary Clinton in 2020Teachout 2024
