Jim Acosta zings Andrew Yang:

[tblue37]

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Jim Acosta to Andrew Yang:"you were just a Democrat 10 minutes ago."

Should Roe v Wade have been overturned?

Yang: Uhhhhh

Acosta to Yang: "You sound like a Fill-in-the-Party, Andrew"

Acosta Roasts Andrew Yang's 'Forward Party' to His Face: 'If Somebody Wants a Party With No Clear Policy Positions, You're It'

[tblue37]

1. Video:

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[Funtatlaguy]

2. Jim Acosta is a national treasure.

Andrew Lang is a huge Democratic disappointment.

[Docreed2003]

3. He also zinged him on the "Forward party"'s lack of positions on any issue

Loved the point where Acosta says "You'll have to actually take a stand for something as a party eventually"

[Midnight Writer]

4. CNN here describes The Forward party as "ex GOP and Democrat officials".

Is there a single ex-Democrat official involved? I haven't seen a single one named (Yang was never an official). All I've seen is a bunch of Republican neo-cons trying to make a comeback.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. I've been able to find one: Joe Sestak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sestak

Congressman from 2007 to 2011. Didn't make much of a splash on DU (mainly about a later attempt to become a Senate candidate).

[Midnight Writer]

9. Didn't know that. Thanks.

[FM123]

5. While Yang was never my preferred candidate

there was much about him that I really liked. Before.
Now, it's kind of sad really.

[LiberalFighter]

7. He was clueless from the beginning.

He wasn't interested in change. Just making noise and expecting people to do something without him actually doing it.

[Sky Jewels]

6. Blah blah blah

The middle of the road is filled with namby pamby roadkill.

[Bucky]

13. I'm kinda middle of the road.

But unlike Mr Yang, it's cause I think through policies I'd like to see enacted, not because it's some mealy-mouthed pitch to try and get everyone to just be friends again.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. i have never been impressed with Yang

Acosta destroys this idiot

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. I think it means, "Vote for me and we'll all sit around together wondering wth is going on."

[Bucky]

12. WHAA-A-A-A-T?? Andrew Yang showing up unprepared for a serious discussion? Say it ain't so!!

After becoming famous for a poorly thought through "universal income" proposal from the far left, he now bumbles in with a poorly thought through "both sides are extreme" appeal utterly devoid of substance, in which his only major allies are homeless Republicans who dream of pinching off enough Democratic moderate votes to keep Congress in Republican hands.

I'm sure Andrew Yang is a perfectly decent chap, but he's just not ready to sit at the grown ups table.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Seeing the Backside of the Forward Party

I have never been impressed with Andrew Yang nor have I have never understood his appeal. He has no real platform or political accomplishments, The Forward Party appears to be a scam that really is only designed to help TFG

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haven’t written about the Forward Party, founded by the adrift Yang, who ran for president as a Democrat, ran for New York mayor as a Democrat, failed spectacularly at both, and then decided the problem wasn’t him or his politics or his communication skills—it was the Democratic Party.

He found two older, retired Republicans, former Florida representative David Jolly and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman, to give him bipartisan cover for what is essentially an attack on Democrats. Because the law of third-party dynamics is: The party the new group is closest to is the party that will suffer if the new group gathers mass. Obviously, that party is the Democrats.

Yang’s sympathetic Trump tweet reminds us that third-party dreams are usually the essence of bothsidesism. Both sides are too extreme; we alone can fix it. Yang’s attempt to vocalize what “millions of Americans” will see as “unjust persecution” is typical for a third-party leader.

Worse, though, is the fact that everyone who covers the far right is seeing growing threats of violence in response to the Mar-a-Lago raid. In his efforts to stay in power, the former president has obviously broken the law. But he and his minions clearly believe that he is above the law and that there is no legitimacy to whatever case the Justice Department might be assembling. There is informed speculation that the raid was to retrieve serious national security documents.

For Yang to even glancingly endorse the notion that the FBI might have unfairly targeted Trump is just one more log on the fire of violent white nationalist extremism. I’m sure he didn’t mean it that way. I’m pretty sure he didn’t know what he meant. The Forward Party is already in my rearview mirror.