Credibility Gap
Leading up to the handshake gaffe, Elizabeth Warren made the claim Bernie Sanders told her early in the campaign that a woman could not win the 2020 election.
Sanders vehemently denies the allegation. Thus we have a Giant Credibility Gap.
As Current Affairs reports, Warren’s claim is highly dubious because:
- Bernie Sanders has a long history of saying the opposite of what Warren is accusing him of saying, and thinking a woman can’t win is incompatible with his political worldview.
- Elizabeth Warren has a long history of saying untrue and distorted things for politically opportunistic reasons.
Iowa Debate Fiasco
Things got to a head following the Iowa debate on January 14 when in a otherwise round of candidate handshakes, Elizabeth Warren refused to shake Bernie Sander’s hand.
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I propose “Don’t You Ever Lie About Me Again”.
CNN Stunt Against Sanders Backfires
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1217466294452260869
Check that out.
CNN asks Bernie if he said “a woman can’t be president”. Bernie says no. Then CNN asks Warren how she felt when Bernie said it, thus taking sides as if he did say that.
Warren a Liar and a Fraud
Bernie Sanders is an misguided socialist (at a minimum they all are), but at least he believes in what he says. He is also the genuine anti-war candidate, bar none.
Warren claims she is “capitalistic to my bones”. She also claims to be a native American Indian when DNA tests prove otherwise.
Good Riddance
Warren likely did herself in with that handshake stunt assuming her faltering campaign was not over already.
So, good riddance to a liar and a fraud.
Audio Addendum
Just after I finished posting the above, an audio turned up.
Warren: “I think you called me a liar on National TV.”
Sanders: “You called me a liar”
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
I think it’s likely she had read the writing on the wall and realized she wasn’t going to win the nomination, nor get it in a brokered convention.
So she chatted with the DNCs powers and reached an agreement… stay in the race to keep Bernie from consolidating the far-left vote (which would win the nomination for him), throw a few grenades at him — and she gets the VP slot when the brokered convention gives the nomination to Biden.
Don’t know if Sanders actually made the statement that he is accused of but he could have meant that a woman could not beat Trump, not that a woman couldn’t do the job of president.
Trump is going to drag this campaign into the mud and come at whomever the Dems nominate as a streetfighter. Most woman aren’t up to that sort of gutter fighting. Most men aren’t either.
Talk about sexism…if a guy had done that (like being a prick like trump during the GOP debates) then its all good, suddenly Warren thinking that Sanders is a DBag not wanting anything to do with him is a big issue! Talk about two weights two measures!
Seriously, who cares? I look back over my life all the way to Eisenhower and it hasn’t mattered who lives at 1600 PA one damn bit. One endless economic war after another. Unimpeded deficit spending. We haven’t had a free election in my lifetime. This ain’t gonna be the year, Mish. PS: Say howdy to the Saints in St. George for me.
I noticed that when The Bern extended his hand for a shake, Dizzy Lizzy gave him the sideways thumb, meaning “get lost”. Seems the best thing for the Bernie campaign is Lizzy. Right after that Bernie got a donation avalanche.
Why wasn’t she over when she released her DNA results? Doesn’t anyone remember how it was signaled as ‘proof’ of her claim initially?
“CNN Stunt Against Sanders Backfires”
This is election meddling by the mainstream media.
The MSM, Google, Facebook, Twitter are a threat to free and fair elections in the U.S.
Even if Sanders said it, so what? He has an opinion that you can freely agree or disagree with.
It’s not PC to say that! [lol].
The Chicago Political Quote Hall of Fame http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/January-2020/The-Chicago-Political-Quote-Hall-of-Fame/
Elizabeth Warren Is the Democrats’ Unity Candidate
Her nomination would offer the best hope of bringing together the party’s warring factions.
By Michelle Goldberg | Opinion Columnist
Jan. 13, 2020
Unity candite my ass.
One has to be nuts to propose that after this stunt.
Moreover, I commented earlier she is the one person easiest for Trump to beat.
Thank God none of this matters.
Its great entertainment! Politics here is getting more interesting….mebbe better voter turnout will result? And man CNN looked bad…I shined all the networks off long ago…propagandist schills. Between some blogs and videos get way more accurate understanding of world events political reality than they present. Kudos to Mish for the perspective he provides!
“Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.” — Frank Zappa
Since Zappa, the “industrial” part of that once-were complex; which, if nothing else, at least included a few somewhat competent people; have now been replaced wholesale by barely literate idiots. Living high off of Fed welfare, and by way of childishly retarded “interpretations” of equally childishly retarded arbitrary so-called “laws.”
The guys building moonlanders and the rockets to carry them, jet fighters and -liners, satellite communication and GPS, ever faster lighter stronger materials, microwave emitters and receivers for anything from radar to medical diagnostics, ARPANET etc. may not always have done so for the most peace loving of reasons, but at least they could, like, read and stuff.
Which is something which cannot even remotely be said for half literate dunces “making money” off of entirely random what-they-are-told-to-believe-is “markets” simply because The Fed robs their productive superiors in order to afford lifting all dices for all dunces; from sitting on the couch thinking the fungi in their walls makes their “home” “go up,” and, like, you know! Nor from running around pretending to be doing something useful by “holding” equally illiterate clowns “accountable” on TV, for mindless drivel not even the average monkey could be relied on to care about.
Yeah, it is great when you select the news you want. Or you could read the Economist, and try reality … it would be novel approach around here.
Sure if one choses to live in an echo chamber. But if one uses sources from a rainbow of perspectives to be informed and comes to one’s own conclusions as to what is reality…..hell, leftist news sources in Europe all note the Iraqi prime minister said Soleimani was on a peace mission to Iraq when assasinated, shades of Rabin….Pompeo addressed it, shows he’s a bit of a lightweight.
LOL, you used a tweet from Shaun King 🙂
Popcorn time? or Nap time?
If the Senate allows Trump’s defense team to call witnesses, bet on Hunter because they’ll try to prove there was a legitimate reason for requesting cooperation of the Ukrainians. In return, the lynching party will get a republicans who are resentful of President Bombastic to paint the worse possible picture of his naturally abusive style.
Otherwise, it’ll be a rerun of innuendo and unprovable accusations accompanied by legal motions and mind-numbing procedural votes.
I’m hoping for maximum chaos, drama, intriguing, and career-ending revelations for all establishment creatures!
It’ll probably be the snooze option that’s implemented.
They all made fools out of themselves so they are all equal. They are now all equal.
After Trump,Obama and Bush,those 3 warmongering buffoons have all but sealed the fate of any male candidate goin forward,and with Pocohontas offering free everything,Vegas odds (unless HRC jumps in)put her at the top,those other dudes are way too old and senile and Trump is just plain incompetent!
The genuine anti-war candidate is Tulsi. Bernie balks often, often repeating CIA talking points. Get this straight immediately, Mish. Yes, he has voted against illegal wars but the talking points is what trips him up. His campaign advisors are either infiltrated or incompetent. He needs to go on the offensive. Attack Biden & Warren. Stop being the nice guy. This is his downfall & ultimately the reason he will not win.
Also, I’m convinced the DNC is fully on board for Trump winning if their ‘establishment’ puppets, Biden, Warren, Buttigieg cannot win the nomination. Anything but Tulsi, Yang, or Bernie. Mother Phucking corporatists that the DNC are.
I don’t like Tulsi because outside of anti-war its Bernie Sanders with a wig.
Only 10 more months of this circus! Whether the country chooses red or blue, 2020 will keep the bankster’s paradise going. More debt, more printing, and more MIC.
At this point, people should want their favorite team to lose so they won’t be blamed for what’s coming.
Yup: it’s a Reality TV Republic with Reality TV Elections in order to elect Reality TV Presidents. And we are about to get a Reality TV Impeachment, to boot. Great for the ratings (but not so great for feuding Crazy Bernie and Lyin’ Lizzie, the two about-to-be sober, impartial Senators in a sober and solemn impeachment!)
Warren and Sanders about to be sidelined by impeachment trial which will damage all involved, no matter the outcome, but of course it will keep them off the trail during early primary voting.
Biden is the victim of Trump attacks which have resulted in Trump being impeached. (Indeed, his candidacy might have been mounted in order to create this Perfect Lawfare Storm scenario.) So he is sitting pretty – unless he does get called as a witness which is highly unlikely given how many RINO types there are on the R side of the equation. Indeed, Rand Paul warned today – and I suspect he’s right – that they will vote to hear witnesses the D’s want (Admin officials who actually witnessed what went down versus all the witnesses they paraded out who only heard things second hand), but not vote to hear witnesses T wants (like the Bidens because of the Burisma bribes which Biden partially admitted on TV).
Probably Trump will survive but quite possibly with well over 55 votes against him, which will play really well 24/7 in the Press during the entire election cycle. Republicans will have a hard time portraying T as an innocent falsely accused President when a bunch of R’s voted to remove him from office.
Going to be a bloody and nasty campaign.
In any case, Bernie and Lyin’ Lizzie are toast. Biden still standing (perhaps), but the floor is still open for a solid moderate. Butty might get VP. He IS a Rhodes scholar, after all, and they tend to do well in the White House, being controlled by all the right people (unlike poor NYC developer Trump!). It seems impossible, but we might still get Clinton or Obama to run. Then it will be:
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Obama/Clinton (then Trump again?!)…
Just shoot me if we get osama and pedowitch back in office.
Just proving herself to be every bit as nasty as that other pantsuited individual, currently waiting in the wings.
Whatever.
Tempest, teapot.
One that might explode in Milwaukee. However, Bernie could declare he is now a woman and they can all come together.