Thread by @AmericasCousin

Corporate Democrats' Desperate Last Act

As if on cue, Joe Biden misidentified his wife as his sister in his victory speech on Super Tuesday, a night he'd just referred to as "Super Thursday." On Wednesday night, Joe Biden forgot Barack Obama's name... again.
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His defenders initially claimed that his wife and sister had "switched" places, but that was quickly disproved when the long form video surfaced. It comes on the heels of another short circuit during a Texas campaign event where he flubbed the most memorable lines
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from the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by—you know, you know, the thing.”

A few days earlier he announced he was running for Senate. And declared his intention to appoint


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a woman of color to the... Senate. This was all in the past week, topping off a year of confusion, bizarre statements, public outbursts and disorientation.

Predictably, Googling Biden's now infamous Declaration of Independence flub yields no results from "liberal"
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private-owned media. They're in on the charade, misleading their readers by lulling them into the calm promised by the idea of Joe Biden. Why puncture that by covering reality?

It may be more than they can handle.

Make no mistake. This wasn't supposed to happen.
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For over a year, donors, institutionalists, and political literati entertained over a dozen stop-Sanders alternatives in a frantic scramble for "anybody but Biden." Editorial boards predisposed to endorse him instead left his interviews dazed and disillusioned. Even the
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State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina endorsed Peter Buttigieg, a candidate so unpopular with black voters it became SNL fodder. Biden's lazy campaign, with sparsely populated events in diners and empty high-school gymnasiums galore, landed him at fourth place in
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Iowa and fifth place non-viability in New Hampshire. His core supporters lost such confidence that they were willing to consider oligarch Michael "Stop and Frisk" Bloomberg as a stop-gap. Biden lost the endorsement of the Alabama Black Caucus. He then lost to Bernie
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Sanders in Nevada by 27 points and called it a "comeback." And little over a week later, he became the resurrected frontrunner. What happened?

His expected win South Carolina?

Not exactly.

This:
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With a Sanders Super Tuesday landslide on the horizon, Democratic megadonors would have loved nothing better than to consolidate around their vastly preferred apple-polisher Peter Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar. Perhaps even Michael Bloomberg. But it would have been futile.
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In multiple one on one simulations, all of the donor-preferred candidates performed abysmally nationwide against Senator Sanders, precisely because of their nonexistent southern black support. Sanders's 18-20% may seem paltry next to Biden's but it's enormous compared
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to Buttigieg's 3% or Klobuchar's 0%.

So in a last ditch effort, following a week of media-saturated anxiety & acrid fear-mongering about Bernie and literacy in Cuba (top concern to... nobody), desperate times called for desperate measures.

Pete had a chance to
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prove he could compete in more diverse states and utterly failed. Had he succeeded, he'd be the consolidation candidate right now. Instead, after vowing to fight on and stake out his path to the nomination, he was constructively forced to concede following a private
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phone call from Barack Obama--the former president so skeptical of Joe Biden he cautioned him personally against running in 2020. Amy Klobuchar followed suit and they joined Joe Biden along with Beto O'Rourke in a rushed endorsement rally in Texas Monday night, the best
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commercial for the worst Star Wars ever produced.

The effect was a fairly big win for Biden on Tuesday, generated both by actual momentum, media narrative, and most significantly in terms of math, from corporate candidates consolidating while the progressive vote fractured.
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But due to Sanders's large victory in the country's biggest state, California, the delegate math is not so lopsided.
The race continues and celebration may be short lived. After the sugar high comes the crash. And this is as artificial as it gets. Corporate media
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grasped so hard for a defeatist narrative against Sanders they outright lied (

https://twitter.com/AmericasCousin/status/1235599689979817984

) about youth turnout to demoralize his supporters. For their victory, they've won a barely coherent proxy frontrunner with a major corruption scandal, an intractable
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public sniffing habit, and a voting record so right-wing, it makes Donald Trump look like FDR.

"Be careful what you wish for."

It's important to understand how and why this happened. As much as we tend to speak about policy, exit polls are showing in every state that
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by landslide margins, beating Donald Trump is the #1 concern for voters. All of the other issues combined account for only 28-34%. Politically, it's a bad environment for big changes when return to normalcy is paramount, whether or not that normalcy is retrievable.
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The entire week in between NV and SC was a coordinated attack about Sanders's electability. No one generally cares about literacy in Cuba, but they do care what the imaginary "reasonable moderate" will. Sanders's best play would have been to be a unifying grandfatherly
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figure to calm the nerves of voters that were being exploited by corporate media. Instead, he was denied that opportunity at the raucous SC debate, a intentionally noxious affair that unnerved viewers. Op-eds polluted public dialogue about riotous conventions. It was
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classic fear-mongering, reminiscent of even while less smutty than Hillary Clinton's tactics against Barack Obama. ("Reverend Wright! Bill Ayers!")

The key to winning now is to highlight Joe Biden's unelectability. Sanders correctly identified his weaknesses on trade
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and social security. He will never bring up dementia or the access-for-pay scandal with Hunter Biden. But Trump will. And it will be effective.

We're loyal to Sanders; we know his values and integrity. I think the key to winning for him is expanding his coalition
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by stressing he is the best horse in the race to remove Trump and alleviating anxiety by stressing he is here to build something up, not burn something down.

The race is not over.

Joe Biden is no savior; he's a reckless Hail Mary pass.

Let's see it for what it us.

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