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SANDERS v. WARREN

I admire and respect #ElizabethWarren

I admire and respect #BernieSanders

I think #Bernie's bold call for a political revolution is the ONLY approach to the danger we face from an emboldened right and a meek Dem establishment.

Things will get more intense...
As the intensity and negativity ratchets up, which it inevitably will, let's remember that Warren and Sanders supporters have a tremendous amount in common.

We're allies and friends in this existential fight for our progressive values.

EYES ON THE PRIZE

#NotMeUs
I'll be honest: I tweeted this not having seen the CNN story about Warren and #Bernie.

Which makes my point even more salient: supporters of both candidates have so much in common. Let's be unified in 2020.

Bottom line: I believe #Bernie is our best candidate to take on Trump.
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Peter Daou
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ON #WARREN'S LOW BLOW

Since this will come up at the #DemDebate, I want to explain her attack on #Bernie.

When CNN leaked the story, Warren could have said: "We're friends and he was referring to the challenges women candidates face. I won't grace these leaks."

Instead...
...Warren's campaign put out a statement that effectively calls #Bernie sexist and then claims to want to move on.

The net effect is to try to damage the leading progressive in the race, which gives a big boost to the establishment wing.

Now why on earth would she do that?
People who follow me know how dedicated I am to fighting sexism. It was everything I did in 2016 and I was mocked and smeared for it when I defended Hillary.

But this isn't about sexism. It's about the incredibly questionable timing of lobbing this out there as #Bernie surges.
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Peter Daou
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Wow.

I'm deeply disappointed in #ElizabethWarren, someone I've praised repeatedly during this election.

Doing this as #Bernie surges weeks before Iowa doesn't feel right.
Let me expand:

I respect and like #Warren and have said nothing but positive things about her campaign.

Whatever conversation she and #Bernie had, my issue is with the timing. I've done politics for 20 years, including two presidentials, and I recognize a low blow.
And one last point: Anyone who knows my career and my work with Hillary knows how hard I've fought sexism in politics.

This isn't about the conversation they had, it's about the timing of releasing it, which is clearly designed to damage #Bernie.

Who does that help??
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Peter Daou
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I WAS THERE

So let me provide context to #JoeVotedForTheWar

I was a successful musician in the 90s. Politics was the furthest from my mind. But when Bush was selected, I felt compelled to move into political activism.

I dedicated myself to fighting Bush-Cheney-Rove-Rumsfeld...
I was an early adopter of online politics. I made lifelong friends during those netroots days, a number of whom work on #Bernie's campaign today.

This is the fact: Many Dem leaders were afraid to stand up to Bush because they thought they'd look 'weak' on national security...
Technically, the AUMF vote wasn't a "vote for war" in the strictest definition, but Dems who voted for it knew exactly what it meant: Bush was being given the power to wage war.

So yes, Biden did vote for war. And I say this as someone who worked for John Kerry.
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Brian from Pennsylvania🌹
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Elizabeth #Warren has just proven she cannot unify the Democratic party.

For those not aware, she attacked Senator #Sanders directly today by reviving smears from the 2016 primary and recast herself in the performative victim role of Hillary Clinton that we all found so

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very endearing. This is the first time either Warren or Sanders attacked each other directly and given the desperation one might expect with her declining numbers, it was Warren who launched the grenade. She used an unverified and heavily disputed report of a lower level
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volunteer canvassing script that distinguished her GE electoral coalition as "affluent and highly educated" to claim that Bernie was sending volunteers to "trash" her. Quite a stretch. She then launched into a nervously delivered pathetic 2-minute long monologue
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1 of 25 (sorry; not my fault)

In the beginning, I thought that maybe #ElizabethWarren was a good alternative to #BernieSanders.

But the more I learned about her the more I became disappointed and realized that that the only choice is #BernieSanders2020.
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- She does not call out the fossil fuel industry disinformation campaign

- She does not support banning fracking (queue Republicans and fossil fuel industry cheering)
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- #ElizabethWarren voted for Ben Carson to head HUD; later flipped after backlash from constituents.

- After Donna Brazil book came out, Warren immediately agreed that the 2016 primary was rigged by DNC. A few days later she flipped her position.
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Sandra N.
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THREAD comparing 2 different Democratic candidates in 2015-16 v. 2019-20. It doesn't matter what you think of either candidate, whether you support or oppose one of them or both of them. 1/
It was around this time in 2015-the yr before the 2016 election-that we saw the introduction of the “#BernieSanders can't appeal to black voters” narrative; we were told his supporters are all white “Berniebros” /2
Countless articles, blogs & social media posts fixated on looking for nonwhite people at Bernie's rallies. I read 2 pieces by @JoanWalsh in @Salon in Aug of that yr. Walsh initiated this narrative & was the principal peddler of what is now an easily disproven cliché. /3
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Politics of Courage
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#ElizabethWarren's bill reminds me of Romney's advice to youths in 4/2012, "Borrow money, if you have to, from your parents. Start a business... [Jimmy John Liautaud] borrowed $20K from his dad..."

The loan was c. 7/82 and was actually $25K.
$25K in 7/82 = $59K in 4/12
#Warren
In the first half of 2019, the nat'l average #rent increased by 2.6%.
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Warren declined to be interviewed for this story. In May, at request of media, her campaign released a summary of her outside work. As a senatorial candidate, Warren released a shorter version, which omitted her work for Dow Chemical.

#NeverWarren
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Victoria Brownworth
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#BernieSanders has announced his run as the oldest person ever to run for president.

Sanders has spent the time since he tried to subvert the will of the voters by claiming he would contest the 2016 convention slamming Democrats & the Dem base.

Where is the fox/henhouse emoji?
Three of the 6 women candidates running for the Dem nomination have a more progressive voting record than Sanders, with Warren and Gillibrand proffering seriously progressive legislation for women and families that bests Sanders.

We have better messengers for Sanders' message.
This comprehensive interview with @NYDailyNews is still the litmus for Sanders. Read the transcript. He's had three years since to fill in the gaps.

He has not.

nydailynews.com/opinion/transc…
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Ryan Van Horne
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This is an interview with Michelle Alexander from April 2016. I re-watched it last week and I am surprised that more people don't know about it and that it still only has 59,000 views as of January 2019. In this interview, Michelle Alexander endorses the "political revolution."
It's a great interview and here's the clip if you want to watch the whole thing, but I will provide a transcript of the first three minutes to give you a sense of what she says to @chrislhayes. #BernieSanders #Bernie2020 #OurRevolution @OurRevolution
Michelle Alexander, by the way, is the author of The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, and I highly recommend the book, too, as it provides a tremendous insight into the racial injustice inherent in the U.S. mass incarceration era. @thenewjimcrow
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