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StarfishSaver

StarfishSaver's Journal
StarfishSaver's Journal
March 13, 2020

Maybe be all of these infected foreign leaders are getting it from Trump

He's looking more and more like Patient 1 every day ...

March 11, 2020

Biden: I want to thank Bernie Sanders and his supporters for their tireless energy and passion

“We share a common goal and together, we’ll defeat Donald Trump. We’ll defeat him together.”

Sanders: "We are winning the generational debate. While Joe Biden continues to do very well with older Americans, especially those people over 65, our campaign continues to win the vast majority of the votes of younger people ... Today, I say to the Democratic establishment, in order to win in the future, you need to win the voters who represent the future of our country ... You cannot simply be satisfied by winning the votes of people who are older ... Let me be very frank as to the questions I will be asking Joe."

March 11, 2020

Richard Marx ... that is all. Just Richard Marx

https://twitter.com/richardmarx/status/1237647398853152768
https://twitter.com/bob_tona/status/1237646804201734147



Richard Marx: I don’t care if you’re a Trumpkin or a Berner. It’s 2020 and Google has been a thing for 22 years. If you still don’t know “your” from “you’re” it’s strictly because “you’re” a willfully ignorant and stupid fuck.

Bob Tona: What songs do you sing?

Richard Marx: The ones your girl f*cked to before she met you.
March 11, 2020

Bernie's made it clear: He's NEVER going away

Great.

His "questions" to Biden are ridiculous coming from a man who has been in the House and Senate for the past several decades.

He needs to talk about what HE plans to do, not demand that Biden answer his questions.

Actually, he needs to drop out. But that's clearly not going to happen.

March 10, 2020

Now we know why Harris waited to endorse Joe

Why Kamala Harris waited for Warren to exit the race before endorsing Biden

“I had two women colleagues in the race, and I did not feel right putting my thumb on the scale [that] in any way would harm their candidacy,” Harris said, referring to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Both ended their campaigns last week. “So, when Elizabeth announced that she was getting out of the race, I let Joe know that I would endorse him.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/09/why-kamala-harris-waited-warren-exit-race-before-endorsing-biden/?fbclid=IwAR3prGlbq32SHBaL5uGGgBTlb1dBxEHCHebcTT7WwxWEfWpJOCWLQTTE21M


Classy move.

I love it when women have each other's backs. It's not necessary for women to always endorse other women candidates. But it's important for them to make sure they don't undermine each other.
March 6, 2020

Some questions for anyone who thinks sexism didn't negatively affect Warren's chances

If you really believe that sexism played no role in Elizabeth Warren's inability to stay in the race, do you believe that sexism no longer affects presidential politics?

If you think sexism does still affect presidential politics, why don't you think it didn't affect Elizabeth Warren's race?

If you think sexism doesn't currently affect presidential politics, do you believe sexism was EVER an issue in presidential politics? If not, what non-sexism explanation do you have for why no woman has ever been elected president, if sexism played no role?

If you think sexism doesn't currently affect presidential politics but did in the past, when precisely do you believe that sexism stopped being an issue? What specifically prompted the change from sexism being an issue to sexism not playing any role?

Thank you in advance.

March 6, 2020

Like many women, I'm deeply disappointed Warren's out of the race. I only wish

those of us who felt the same way about Kamala Harris' departure had been shown the same empathy and time and space that many are now insisting they be given to grieve Warren's departure.

I especially wish that everyone explaining the role that sexism played in Warren's inability to continue in the race had been as willing to recognize the role that sexism and racism played in Harris' inability to continue her campaign. Instead, we were told to stop complaining: "race and gender had nothing to do with it," "she was playing by the same rules as everyone else," "she just didn't have what it takes," "no one forced her out of the race, it was her choice," etc.

The playing field is NOT level for women and people of color, and female and minority candidates do have a more difficult time and face considerably greater obstacles that white male candidates simply don't have to deal with. And pretending this doesn't exist or telling the people who try to explain it that we are overreacting only compounds and ingrains the problem. And recognizing its existence only in certain instances while ignoring and dismissing it in others is disrespectful to allies and further rubs salt in the wounds.

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar were treated differently than the men in the race. Period. It's not certain any of them would have gotten the nomination if it had been a fair fight, but I do know that gender and race got in the way and ensured we'll never know.

March 5, 2020

"We are used to supporting whichever less-qualified white man seems to hate us least"

https://twitter.com/v_solesmith/status/1235239927140540417

Stop telling Warren supporters to suck it up and support Sanders or Biden.

Of course we will do that, we're strong, capable women and we are fucking used to supporting whichever less-qualified white man seems to hate us least.

But we get to be mad as hell first.
March 5, 2020

Sanders didn't ask for Clyburn's endorsement before the South Carolina primary?

And his excuse is because he didn't think Clyburn would endorse him.

Seriously?

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