Otto Lidenbrock
Otto Lidenbrock's JournalTwitter is seeking to clarify its rules for politicians after coming under pressure from Sen. Harris
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1184451436790325250So all the blue checks who ridiculed her for bringing it up last night including the Pod Save bros should eat some humble pie.
Four of those people on stage had pipe bombs mailed to them in 2018. Vice President Biden, Senator Harris, Senator Booker and Mr Steyer. The culprit was a man radicalised by Trump.
This is the result of Trump's twitter.
Two things I never want to hear in a debate again
"Beat him like a drum"
"I wrote the damn bill"
It was funny the first time. Stop saying it now please.
"A Statement on behalf of Hunter Biden"
Ukraine: Burisma Holdings Limited (Burisma)
In April 2014, Hunter was asked to join the board of Burisma, the largest independent natural gas producer in Ukraine. At the time, Hunter was of counsel with Boies Schiller Flexner LLP [fn 1] (Boies Schiller), a major U.S. law firm, and was advising Burisma on its corporate reform initiatives, an important aspect of fueling Burismas international growth and diversity. Vibrant energy production, particularly natural gas, was central to Ukraines independence and to stemming the tide of Vladimir Putins attack on the principles of a democratic Europe.
To further its goals of independence, Burisma sought to adopt standards and practices traditionally employed by Western companies. At Hunters urging, Boies Schiller engaged Nardello & Co., a leading global investigative firm, to assess, among other things, Burismas corporate structure and governance practices.
Burisma agreed to pay the legal expenses of Boies Schiller to support Hunter in developing corporate reform initiatives.
Because of Burismas stated commitment to corporate best practices, it was able to attract well-qualified board members, including the former president of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, a leading advocate of democratic principles in the region. President Kwasniewski, familiar with Hunters work on behalf of Burisma, recommended that Hunter join the board.
Hunter joined the board as a non-executive director, meaning he was an independent board member and not a member of the management team. At no time was Hunter in charge of the companys legal affairs. Like all Burisma directors, Hunter was compensated for his board service.
Hunter focused his work on the principles of corporate transparency, governance and responsibility, which was based on his prior experience as a lawyer and director on other boards, including the Chair of World Food Program USA, which supports the largest humanitarian organization in the world, Vice-Chair of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), to which he was appointed by President George W. Bush, Center for National Policy, Truman National Security Project, and the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign.
Hunter stepped off Bursimas board in April, 2019. Despite extensive scrutiny, at no time has any law enforcement agency, either domestic or foreign, alleged that Hunter engaged in wrongdoing at any point during his five-year term.
Full statement in link:
https://medium.com/@george.mesires/a-statement-on-behalf-of-hunter-biden-dated-october-13-2019-d80bc11087ab
Posting in this sub forum as received message from host that it is relevant
If Warren is the frontrunner it's time the media took off the kid gloves
Look, I understand no democrat is going to bring up the Native American thing. While other candidates had their pasts scrutinised none of them, nor the moderators at the debate questioned her. There's nothing to gain from bringing up a Trump weaponized talking point on our side. However in the GE you can bet the media will once again bring it straight back up to both sides the election.
I've given her due credit for her surge. She's run the best campaign in terms of mobilising supporters and interacting with voters. I think she offers a more credible progressive agenda than Sanders because she spent years as a private citizen studying cases of bankruptcy and law. She probably has a better idea of what is politically viable because of that and of course she helped form the CFPB.
She also has less baggage than Biden.
But that doesn't mean she is the defacto nominee. The fact is she has been treated kinder than other candidates.When Sanders is asked about middle class taxes going up, people sort of mock him for saying "millionaires and billionaires" (or these days just billionaires) are the ones who will have to pay up as a stock answer.
Is Warren's wealth tax any different? Colbert of all people was the one who pressed her more to offer a more developed answer. And please note I said developed, not different. It is better to do it now than when the socialist card gets played out in the GE.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colbert-desperately-tries-to-get-elizabeth-warren-to-bad-mouth-joe-biden
Another example is from the LGBTQ forum when many people noticed the subtle difference in questioning that she received compared to Kamala Harris.
https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1175254472836243458
Intentional or not it's not a good look for the moderator.
There's the fact she seemed to agree that the 2016 Primaries were rigged. Has anyone asked her about that stance since because it is pretty insulting to the millions more Hillary voters. Sanders doesn't have much goodwill from devout HRC supporters for perpetuating the idea but Warren agreed.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/elizabeth-warren-dnc-rigged/index.html
There's the fact she was a registered republican until the age of 47. Not a big deal because part of the 2020 mantra is we can try and flip disenchanted GOP-ers. However considering Joe Biden has his past scrutinised minutely, he could say in the next debate that when he was one of the first senators to endorse Jimmy Carter, Warren voted for the man who pardoned Nixon. That's not a winning point but it's a point that he has been a democrat all his adult life. Sanders gets stick for not being a democrat but he was never a republican.
Don't mistake this post as a takedown of Warren please. I think it's a discussion that at some point is needed because whoever the nominee is will be battered and bruised by the media in the GE campaign. So it's good to get prepared now. It's clear some of the other campaigns have noticed this and now you are seeing some jabs fired her way regarding policy. But ultimately its' the media responsibility to vet the candidates and hold them accountable.
The Democratic National Convention is 9 months away and Trump is already running TV ads about Biden
This has to be unprecedented.
It's one thing opening the Twitter app on your phone and posting tweets about "Sleepy Joe". It's another to spend millions of dollars to spread videos (disinformation) to households and targetted audiences. Remember Twitter reflects only a small percentage of the electorate (and the wider public). The social media platform that has the biggest impact is Facebook.
Even then it's extremely early to start doing this.
He's scared of Biden.
A noun, a verb and Joe Biden
I think Rudy Giuliani has been holding a grudge all these years
A Question I have for Bernie Sanders
Bernie talks a lot about voter excitement. Getting young people into the political process. Valid points.
But I want to ask him when he was a young person why did he not cast a vote until it was for himself?
Bernie turned 21 in 1961. He first ran for office in 1972. Between those dates the Civil Rights movement was on the ballot in 1964. John Kennedy started the process, then Lyndon Johnson made it the promise of his presidency. Barry Goldwater wanted to do away with it.
Why did he not vote in '64?
Excitement is magical for a party in the campaign, but if you need to be 'excited' by a candidate just to vote when the stakes are that high and it's no ordinary election, you must be in a state of privilege.
Morning Consult Post Debate Poll: Biden 32%, Sanders 20%, Warren 18%, Harris 6%
https://twitter.com/MorningConsult/status/1173672090911813632That seems a higher than normal sample size.
What do other candidates think about the Freedom Dividend (UBI)?
It's Andrew Yang's signature policy that he loves plugging on stage but I've not heard a moderator bring it to others.
I noticed when Yang revealed his surprise right at the start for 10 families around America getting a year's worth of UBI from his campaign the audience cheered while his fellow candidates seemed a little shocked/lost for words for a second or two.
What does Joe Biden think of handing over $1000 a month to everyone? Bernie Sanders? Kamala Harris? What does Yang do if someone says "I'll raise it to $2000 a month"?
77/100 stories about Biden that got the most social media attention in last 3 weeks were negative
Unlike a certain someone he's not thrown the toys out of the pram screaming "fake news" and "enemy of the people".
The big picture: While stories about Biden may be generating more interactions on social media than his 2020 rivals, it's largely because he's getting ripped apart in those pieces.
Social media has never been kind to moderation, and Biden is getting a lot of incoming from both sides of the political spectrum.
Why it matters: As Biden maintains his perch atop the 2020 field in the polls, both the right and the left have incentives to chip away at his position with intense scrutiny and attacks.
Yes, but: Biden is not helping his cause with his recurring erroneous statements.
We reported in August that Biden was getting pummeled online for his gaffes. The gaffes have continued, as has the negative coverage around him.
The latest: In the last 3 weeks, the biggest Biden storylines (measured by interactions on articles on Facebook and Twitter) have been:
Plunging in a Monmouth poll to land in a virtual tie with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. (It was a small sample, and later polls with larger samples showed Biden was still in the lead.)
The Washington Post report that 'almost every detail' of a war story Biden tells was false.
Vice, citing a campaign video: "Joe Biden: It Would Be an Insult to My Dead Son for Everyone to Have Healthcare."
Saying in New Hampshire: "I love this place. Look, what's not to like about Vermont."
His wife Jill saying that voters might "have to swallow a little bit" by voting for Biden.
Saying in New Hampshire: "I want to be clear, I'm not going nuts."
Saying in Iowa that MLK and RFK were assassinated in the 1970s.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1170662820024868865
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