Biden's "anti-populist" triangulation NEW:Biden talks working w/ segregationists

[JA]

Hmmm, listen to what common people are demanding, and DON'T give it to them...

My god it's so crazy it just might fail horrifically.

[JA]

I'm of mixed feelings here. I like that he attacks Silicon Valley executives and UBI, because they suck. On the other hand, I don't like his overall anti-populist tone. Seems like the same type of tone Hillary used in the general.

This in some ways seems worse than Hillary's message.

I can see it now:

"Look, you folks don't REALLY hate corporations right?"
*Entire auditorium of people boos loudly*

[JA]

I'm glad that the Democratic Party is finally tackling the biggest issue of Clinton's campaign, not being tone deaf enough.

Honestly, that Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial basically summarizes the Democratic Party. It uses privileged, wealthy White celebrities and token minorities to coopt legitimate social movements that it doesn't even care to understand, then repackages them in a tone deaf manner to promote corporate interests.

[JA]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/915278215702306816

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Oh my god eat s**t.

[JA]

Are people more upset about the first part of that, or the second part?

For me, it's the second part. Biden was being intentionally antagonistic and intentionally misrepresenting what Sanders and, by extension, millions of Americans, believes.

[JA]

Sanders uses similar rhetoric as Trump, except Trump uses minorities and Sanders uses the wealthy.

Ah, yes, Sanders and Trump are basically the same. Because calling attention to the extreme inequality in America, how that affects government, distribution of power, and the lives of ordinary Americans of all backgrounds is hardly different from using ignorance and bigotry to scapegoat already disadvantaged people for qualities with which they were born. Damn, I just can't tell those apart...

[JA]

^^^
It's the return of Joe "My state was a slave state" Biden.  

Ah, yes, the good 'ol days when only White men could gather around and debate issues pertaining to the rights of other people then have lunch and laugh.