Special Election megathread (6/11: OH-6, 6/25: CO-4)

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https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1374737867847704581

Nina Turner endorsed by CPC. Not particularly surprising, I guess, but it is notable that Turner seems to be getting support even from mainstream progressives.

That's because the left wing version of the tea party has taken over the Democratic Party.

It has not. It's less than 10% of the Dem caucus.

It has, however, essentially blunted the rise of Warren/Porter like progressives in favor of the Sanders/Corbyn wing.

1. Corbyn is not an American politician so this statement is inherently absurd
2. Sanders is not comparable, especially on Anti Semitism for reasons that should be obvious

*Chris Matthews has entered the chat.*

"SaNDerS wiNnINg NeVaDA iS LiKE tHe NAzIs INvaDinG fRanCe!!!!!"

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In my case, I think it was more that I foolishly assumed the Cuyahoga County Dems might have there act together for once and that I didn’t anticipate Turner reinventing herself as an establishmentarian (props to her for pulling that off btw

It helps to have enormous amounts of money.  Funny how people all over the country are donating tons of cash to Turner so she can use it to distance herself from them and lie to voters that she was never really one of them.

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In my case, I think it was more that I foolishly assumed the Cuyahoga County Dems might have there act together for once and that I didn’t anticipate Turner reinventing herself as an establishmentarian (props to her for pulling that off btw

It helps to have enormous amounts of money.  Funny how people all over the country are donating tons of cash to Turner so she can use it to distance herself from them and lie to voters that she was never really one of them.

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No one cares that Turner is going to win the primary

Uh huh.

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Is Nina Turner actually behaving better now though? She was totally Susan Sarandon far left nonsense before this year.

"Behaving better..." I don't even get why you would care or be involved in politics if you're number one issue is a candidate's tone lol

Turner's entire persona is being an obnoxious, conspiracy-addled asshole though.  If you take that away (her "tone") what does she bring to the table?

People like her because she's obnoxious and rude to people they dislike, and because she says crazy things that validate their conspiratorial belief system.  That's really all there is to it.

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I legitimately think that GMA is incapable of processing that the Squad have been solidly reliable votes on pretty much everyting while his fabled moderates are the ones who are not.

Also, comparing Tlaib to Gaetz? That's low, even for you, GMA. Only one of them is a kiddy diddler, and it's not Tlaib.

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Anyone remember a year and a half ago, when Cenk Uygur ran for Congress and all of Bernieworld endorsed him?  And then it "came out" (actually this has been known about him for all along, but it finally got some press attention) that Cenk was a raging misogynist asshole with a history of saying really, truly vile and disgusting things and throwing manbaby temper tantrums?  And then Bernie, Nina, and the rest of Bernieworld had to do a 180 and un-endorse him and pretend this was news to them?

I guess I'm the only one who remembers because now Nina is out there doing events with Cenk.  I guess she forgot a year ago when she distanced herself from him because of all the horrible, toxic, misogynistic s--t he said.

Oh, also here's a clip of Nina nodding along and agreeing with Killer Mike as he accuses Jim Clyburn of being "incredibly stupid" and "caring more about his sponsors than the people who voted to get him there."  You might think this clip is from a year ago, before Nina adopted her new public image.  Actually, it's from this week.  But nobody in OH-11 will see this clip, they only get to see the fake Nina that her media team is spending millions of dollars to sell to the district.  This real Nina is for her leftist audience online, it was at an event with TYT to try and raise even more money.

P.S. she doesn't actually live in OH-11.  She lives in Maryland and has for years.  Has Nina even been back to Cleveland during this race?  The primary debate was on Zoom.  As far as I can tell from the events section of her Facebook page, she's done multiple events in Hawaii but none in Cleveland.

None of this will matter, though.  None of it will break through.  She has an entire presidential campaign apparatus behind her Congressional primary run, and she's using it to drown OH-11 in false advertising portraying her as the polar opposite of everything she portrayed herself as for the last five years.

Cope.

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Supporting a horrible person, and then going "lol suck it bitch" when someone points out all the horrible things they do, in plain sight, with no shame, and no accountability.

Am I describing Trump supporters?

No, they're Nina Turner supporters.

It's easy to get confused since in 2016 they all helped Trump get elected by voting for Jill Stein.

This is fun to watch. All I'm missing is the popcorn.

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I take back what I said about no one caring that Turner is gonna win.  Apparently General MacArthur cares

He's openly admitted to hating the progressive left, so it's no real surprise.

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Progressives held up Biden's agenda?

It was those fabled moderates like Sinema who killed a $15 minimum wage which *checks notes* Biden campaigned on.

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I have a bigger problem with Nina's behavior in 2016 than 2020.  I'm 2016 she was promoting all the conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton stealing the election and being hopelessly corrupt and all that stuff that Trump profited from enormously, and she teamed up with Jill Stein big time, to the point that Nina was considered for Green Party VP.  She continued promoting these conspiracy theories throughout the Trump administration in her role as leader of Bernie's Super PAC (her co-leader was Tulsi Gabbard, another former Bernie acolyte who had a "DNC rigged 2016 and is rigging 2020" push poll featured on her website throughout her presidential run).  And of course she was one of Bernie world's main liaisons with what was then known as left-wing media but has since become openly right-wing or at least anti-Dem (the Glenn Greenwalds, Jimmy Dores, Aaron Mates and Caitlyn Johnstones of the world).

She's only become relatively better-behaved recently because for whatever reason, Bernie personally has more respect for Biden than he did for Clinton, and drew a line in the sand that his crew wasn't supposed to cross (although Sirota still did, leading to his ostracization).  The "voting for Biden is like eating a bowl of poop" comment is actually very tame and harmless compared to the things Nina was saying about Clinton and the DNC every day during the fateful 2016 election.

I don't actually believe that she's changed though (even if she has she's still awful) she's just following Bernie's lead and adapting to the new administration.

You know why Sanders listened to Biden more?

It's because Biden didn't try to run roughshod over him.

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The reason this story is being dismissed out of hand is that it doesn't fit GMA's preconceived bias of "Anyone endorsed by AOC-worse than Satan"