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March 23, 2019

Greenwald on the "wisdom" of Bernie advisers deleting tweets, so they're not taken out of context

Glenn Greenwald, who once deleted 27,000 tweets of his own, said:

Under those circumstances, it shouldn’t be hard to understand why people joining the Sanders campaign – in an environment filled with unethical journalists with extreme anti-Sanders animus such as Dovere and Rupar – would want to delete their old tweets to prevent distortions of this type. Whatever else is true, tweet deletions are certainly not evidence of any wrongdoing by Sirota.

Indeed, to understand the justifiability and wisdom of deleting old tweets, consider what Vox writer Aaron Rupar did this week to Briahna Joy Gray when it was announced that Gray was leaving the Intercept to become the Press Secretary for Sanders’ campaigns (that happened on the same day Dovere smeared Sirota). Rupar spent that day digging through Gray’s old tweets to find anything incriminating that he could get his hands on in order to ruin her reputation before she even started her job as Sanders’ Press Secretary.

Rupar’s most viral, damaging tweet about Gray ended up being an outright falsehood: that Gray, during the 2016 election, had endorsed the theory that the DNC hack was really an “insider job.”

Greenwald did not mention the fact that Sirota tweeted attacks on Hillary Clinton the day before the 2016 elections, or the famous tweet where Briahna Joy Gray vowing to vote for Jill Stein.

We wouldn't know about these in important facts without access to their old tweets.

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/23/the-crux-of-the-accusations-against-david-sirota-from-the-atlantics-edward-isaac-dovere-is-false/

March 22, 2019

The Intercept deletes article in defense of David Sirota

It is being reported that an article defending the hiring of David Sirota by the Sanders camp has been taken down, shortly after it was published.

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/21/the-crux-of-the-accusations-against-david-sirota-from-the-atlantics-edward-isaac-dovere-is-false/

https://twitter.com/zatchry/status/1109117077523234816

March 22, 2019

The betting odds website "PredictIt" is a joke

Andrew Yang is ahead of Elizabeth Warren when even Buttegieg has broken the 0% mark nationally in a poll, which Andrew Yang hasn’t.
https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination

March 21, 2019

Black members of the DSA want Bernie endorsement withheld

Due to issues that include his stance on reparations:

“Should the organization move forward with an endorsement of the Sanders campaign, despite his failure to adopt specific policy stances to address matters of persisting racial injustice and despite his unwillingness to champion reparations to specifically address the experience of the descendants of African slaves, it will risk alienating not just members of color within the organization, but people of color in the communities in which the DSA works,” the letter reads.

“We ask that the DSA withholds endorsement of the Bernie Sanders campaign for the presidency until Sanders finally acknowledges the validity of black demands for reparations in America.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/21/18276037/bernie-sanders-dsa-endorsement-reparations

March 21, 2019

Biden/Abrams. Will it matter if Pundits and Twitter don't like it?

I am very curious to know what African-American voters would think about an early ticket of Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams.
African Americans are seen as the most important voting bloc in the democratic party.

And something tell me they would love it. For the record, I am Hispanic and I would also love the idea.
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I don’t think Twitter hipsters, pundits and online message board people really represent the average Democrat out there.

I don’t even think the regular white Democrat would be very upset with the idea.

Let’s wait and see.

March 21, 2019

As a prosecutor, Klobuchar declined to go after police involved in fatal encounters with black men

Christopher Burns, a 44-year-old black man, was unarmed and at home in Minneapolis with his fiancee and three young children when the police arrived in response to a domestic violence call. The officers put him in a chokehold, and he died on the scene, according to the medical examiner.

The 2002 incident marked the third killing of a black person by the city’s police department that year, prompting local activists to stage rallies and demand that the two officers involved in Burns’s death face charges.

The focus of the community’s anger was Amy Klobuchar, the up-and-coming attorney of Hennepin County, who had declined to prosecute police accused of using excessive force against black suspects.

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Klobuchar, then 42, declined to bring charges against the officers, and a grand jury she convened did not indict them.

Continued...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amy-klobuchar-was-a-tough-on-crime-prosecutor-will-a-diverse-democratic-base-accept-her-record/2019/03/21/739e6984-4057-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html

March 21, 2019

Chait: 9 Reasons a Biden-Abrams Ticket Is a Brilliant Idea for Both Biden and Abrams

Here are just two reasons because the article is long:

Most obviously, running with Abrams would help address Biden’s cringe-inducing and sometimes ghastly history of retrograde positions on segregation and criminal justice.

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The biggest single argument against naming Abrams at the beginning is that it just hasn’t been done before. The closest parallel is Ted Cruz’s last-minute desperation gambit to name Carly Fiorina as his running mate in the closing stages of the 2016 primary. The fact that the combined charisma of Cruz and Fiorina was not enough to overcome Trump’s big lead hardly proves it can’t work. If anything, the lateness of the maneuver gave it a whiff of desperation. If Biden does wait, and his polling lead starts to melt, naming Abrams will have the same pitfall. The Cruz example argues for joining with Abrams on Day One.

Sometimes there’s a new idea that has not been done before for no good reason. “Political brilliance” is not a phrase I would normally associate with Joe Biden. But running with Stacey Abrams seems to qualify.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/03/joe-biden-stacey-abrams-vice-president-ticket-win.html?__twitter_impression=true

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