Elizabeth Warren 2020 campaign megathread

[IceSpear]

I find it amusing that a lot of the people who told anyone that would listen back in 2015/2016 "I'd support a woman for president! Just not Hillary! For instance, I would enthusiastically support Elizabeth Warren!" suddenly hate Warren now that she's actually running for president. How convenient.

[IceSpear]

“I’m just going to be blunt,” she said on MSNBC in late February of this year. “I do not believe in unilateral disarmament. We got to go into these fights, and we gotta be willing to win these fights.” By rebuking “unilateral disarmament,” Warren means this: All options are on the table for funding her potential general election campaign against Trump. While she, like other Democratic candidates, have vowed to reject corporate and super PAC money during the primary, the general election is a different ballgame. To beat Trump, we have to play like Trump, she argues.

At a campaign event in Iowa, she said “I don’t believe democracy should be for sale to billionaires and giant corporations. I don’t take corporate PAC money. Shoot, I don’t take PAC money of any kind.” But if Warren is not willing to put our democracy up for sale during the primary, then what makes the general election any different? We are left to wonder whether Warren is just paying lip service to take on the billionaire class, which she apparently plans to cozy up to during the general election.

Ultimately, Warren is wrong when she suggests that rejecting corporate money during the general election constitutes “unilateral disarmament.” It is actually quite the opposite. Money does not win elections – people do. We need to look no further than to 2016, when Hillary outspent Trump and still lost.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-campaign-funding-super-pac-money-corporate-donations-2020-election-a9084451.html

Will be interesting to see Warren raising money from Goldman & JP Morgan to fight Trump in the GE !

What type of dumbass who works at Goldman would donate to Warren?

I mean, I'm pretty sure most Warren/Sanders supporters would take a high paying position at Goldman Sachs if they were offered one, lol. It does not necessitate a change in ideology.

[IceSpear]

What type of dumbass who works at Goldman would donate to Warren?

I mean, I'm pretty sure most Warren/Sanders supporters would take a high paying position at Goldman Sachs if they were offered one, lol. It does not necessitate a change in ideology.

Plus a lot of hires by these firms are young elite university grads living in big cities like New York. Many of them probably do support Warren and Sanders. Sure they’re not voting for what many may perceive to be their economic self interest but neither are Cletus and Jimbo.

Only because Dems are SJWs who hate the "WWC" and play identity politix. If only they embraced #populism and "kitchen table issues" then Appalachia would be back to voting straight ticket D in the blink of an eye! Just look at my sig for proof.

[IceSpear]

Warren and Clinton share a lot of great qualities. Warren is the natural choice to succeed Hillary Clinton as our nominee. She has a lot of her strengths with none of her weaknesses.

She shares at least a couple weaknesses. Being a woman is the obvious one, along with being "shrill."

[IceSpear]

Bernie cultists have been attacking and unsubscribing to David Pakman simply because he reports on polls that show Warren ahead, when clearly these polls are a conspiracy against Sanders. LOL

The leftist version of 2012's "Unskewed Polls."

The left already had their version of that in 2016 when they were in denial about the polls showing Hillary in trouble after the Comey letter.

[IceSpear]

Wow, what a generous gesture from the Warren camp

https://twitter.com/EWarenn/status/1175935924451962880

You seem to have a bad habit of outsourcing your oppo research to the alt right. Sad!

[IceSpear]

So I'm curious, have there been any actual substantive criticisms of Warren from the left? Or has it just been "she's a neoliberal corporate shill bcuz i sed so"

[IceSpear]

https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/1179016940381179910?s=19

R I C H T E A R S

b-b-but I was told she was a corporate whore because reasons!

[IceSpear]

Why is the Democratic Party so obsessed with these two losers?

Abrams lost.  Gillum lost.  They both lost winnable elections in a wave year.  They're welcome to try again next cycle.  But I wouldn't even say their political skills are above average, much less the prodigy-level talent they would need to make a jump from local politics to the White House even remotely justifiable.

Abrams' performance was actually extremely impressive though. Gillum's...was not.

[IceSpear]

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1183146608394985477

Two year early polls are PROOF that Biden is an Unbeatable Titan and Warren is Mondale 2.0! One year early polls mean nothing, there hasn't even been any socialism ads yet, it is obvious that Biden is an Unbeatable Titan and Warren is Mondale 2.0!

[IceSpear]

https://twitter.com/wideofthepost/status/1183168042920005632?s=21

I like Reid but hopefully he’s wrong here.

Warren didn't support single payer until after Hillary lost. She won't fight very hard to have it passed.

Bernie’s answer to getting it passed with a minority or without blowing up the filibuster is having rallies in Kentucky so......

Putting aside the general silliness of that idea, has anyone else noticed the logistical problems with it? I'm sure ol Mitch is quaking in his boots at the thought of President Sanders holding a rally in KY 5.5 years before he's up for re-election.

[IceSpear]

She's saying that if the companies signed a non-binding pledge, they should have no problem with a statutory requirement to live up to their own stated goals, in effect pointing out their hypocrisy. But of course if you're determined to twist into something bad, you can make up that she's saying a non-binding pledge is great and the whole tweet was just about congratulating CEOs.

This.

Warren could cure cancer at this point and people will say she's a neoliberal puppet.

She probably did so by putting money in the pockets of Big Cancer Research. Neoliberal corporatist shill!