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MSNBC Yet Again Broadcasts Blatant Lies, This Time About Bernie Sanders’s Opening Speech, and Refuses to Correct Them

MSNBC's claim that Sanders “did not mention race or gender until 23 minutes into the speech” is demonstrably false.

After Sanders’s speech, MSNBC immediately asked its panel for reactions. The first person they turned to was Zerlina Maxwell, who the host identified only as an “MSNBC analyst.” What the host omitted, but which Maxwell herself acknowledged, was that she was a paid official for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign against Sanders: that, revealingly, is the first person MSNBC had opine on Sanders’s speech.

“To be very serious about it, I clocked it. He did not mention race or gender until 23 minutes into the speech. And just for point of comparison, I went back and looked at Elizabeth Warren’s opening speech, for example. She mentions race and discrimination in the first paragraph. So that’s a big difference.”

That is a big difference. It’s also a total lie. Sanders mentioned race, gender, and discrimination multiple times at the beginning of his speech and long before the 23-minute mark, as anyone who actually watched it — which presumably includes all the MSNBC personalities on that panel who sat silently as this lie was broadcast — obviously knew was a lie. 

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Poll: Sanders, Biden lead Democrats in 2020 New Hampshire primary

Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren followed, with 10 percent and 7 percent of Democratic voters, respectively.

Twenty-six percent of Democratic primary voters support Sanders, an independent, when provided a list of declared candidates and those who will possibly join the race, according to the University of New Hampshire’s Granite State Poll.

Trailing Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden is favored by 22 percent of Democratic voters. Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts followed, with 10 percent and 7 percent, respectively. Fourteen percent of those surveyed remain undecided.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shares the best piece of advice she got from Bernie Sanders

The freshman congresswoman took it to heart.

She says his advice to her was "functional" and simple: "You spend a lot of time in your committee, so it's really important to pick a subject that you're passionate about."

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Bernie Sanders holding rally in Chicago next Sunday

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will be coming to Chicago next weekend.

Sen. Sanders will hold a rally at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 3, at Navy Pier. The event is free. Tickets are not required and entry will be allowed on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Bernie Sanders Politely Asks Supporters Not to Harass His Opponents

“Let us do our very best to engage respectfully with our Democratic opponents,” the candidate said in an email

“As we engage with our opponents in the Democratic primary, we will forcefully present our views and defend ourselves against misrepresentations,” Sanders wrote. “But, let us do our very best to engage respectfully with our Democratic opponents―talking about the issues we are fighting for, not about personalities or past grievances. I want to be clear that I condemn bullying and harassment of any kind and in any space.”

In his email about 2020, Sanders emphasized that only a united front will have a chance to beat Trump. “Our number one priority is defeating Donald Trump. To do so, we will ultimately have to unite with those who today are our opponents for the Democratic nomination. We won’t always agree with them, but I expect those who speak on behalf of my campaign to always engage respectfully. I am committed to making this nominating process a fair, issues-focused campaign and am asking you for the same,” he concluded.

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With A Bernie Sanders Candidacy, Clean Energy Technology Is Central To Policy Discussions

With a Sanders presidential candidacy, clean energy issues take center stage.

A consistent advocate for adopting new climate-neutral energy policies, Bernie Sanders has fought for improving access to renewable energy by introducing various legislative bills.

Residential Energy Savings Act: This update to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act established a voluntary loan program for property owners or tenants to finance energy efficiency upgrades of residential buildings.

Low Income Solar Act: This legislation made solar energy more accessible to low-income families who would benefit the most from a reduction in their electricity bills but were are not taking advantage of this affordable, sustainable energy source because of a combined lack of access to financing options.

Green Jobs Act: This Act allows financial and technical assistance used by community development financial institutions to develop or support small businesses that provide green jobs to low-income individuals in low-income communities. It limits such assistance to $2 million in financial assistance and $100,000 in technical assistance.

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program: This program provides $3.2 billion to develop, promote, implement, and manage energy efficiency and conservation projects that, ultimately, create jobs. It represents the largest nationwide direct investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies at the community level in US history, rapidly increasing the number of communities directly engaged with the Department of Energy on programs to increase renewable energy capacity, technical knowledge, and deployment of energy efficiency projects at the local level.

Bernie Sanders also helped form a public-private partnership, Efficiency Vermont, the nation’s first energy efficiency utility. As Vermont’s objective advisor on saving energy through efficiency, Efficiency Vermont provides technical services and financial support to improve homes, businesses, and communities. They also train and partner with local providers of efficient goods and services.

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Bernie Sanders Is Just What the 2020 Campaign Needs

His candidacy can force both parties into a refreshingly normal debate about how the economy should work.

While Donald Trump powered his way through the Republican primary as a pure culture warrior with an incoherent economic platform, Sanders led an economically focused insurgency. But he fell short of the nomination.

A Sanders candidacy for the 2020 nomination will give the Democrats another opportunity to recalibrate their center. Of all the Democratic hopefuls, Sanders is least likely to get sucked into a culture war with Trump.

His wariness about increased immigration and antipathy toward free trade make it difficult to cast him as a globalist. His gruff, authentically populist demeanor frees him from associations with snobbish coastal elites. In short, he has the potential to use the campaign to have a more fundamental debate about which economic philosophy should guide the U.S.

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It’s Foreign Policy That Distinguishes Bernie This Time

He’s challenging American exceptionalism in a far more radical way than his 2020 competitors are.

Warren, after defending Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip earlier in her career, last year criticized Israel’s response to protests there. But Sanders has gone much further: He’s produced videos that call Gaza an “open-air prison,” he’s depicted Benjamin Netanyahu as part of the “growing worldwide movement toward authoritarianism,” and, most controversially of all, he’s suggested cutting U.S. military aid to Israel.

But Israel is only the beginning of Sanders’s sacrilege. He’s the only presidential candidate in recent memory who regularly describes the Cold War not as a heroic American victory, but as a cautionary tale. Sanders doesn’t just warn against U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, as Warren and Gillibrand have. He warns against it while invoking the United States’ “long history of inappropriately intervening in Latin American countries.”

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Bernie Sanders Raises $5.9 Million Online in First 24 Hours After Announcing Campaign

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign said it raised $5.9 million in the first 24 hours after his announcement, a sign of his online fundraising advantage at the start of the Democratic primaries.

WASHINGTON—Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign said it raised $5.9 million in the first 24 hours after his presidential announcement, a sign of his online fundraising advantage at the start of the Democratic primaries.

The independent senator received donations from more than 225,000 individual donors in the first day of his campaign, a haul that far outpaced his Democratic rivals and some of his biggest fundraising days during his 2016 primary challenge to Hillary Clinton.

[weavemama]

college can literally be free right fucking now as we speak but keeping young people out of loan debt isn’t a priority to the government.

let me repeat that because this information is infuriating.

college can literally be free right fucking now as we speak but keeping young people out of loan debt isn’t a priority to the government.

[weavemama]

to break it down in the simplest way possible: 

-the government needs roughly $62 billion to make all public colleges free. 

-that’s obviously a lot of money, but not to the government, knowing they’re going to spend $716 billion on nuclear weapons.

-the government has no interest in alleviating the college financial crsis – or any other economic related problems, because they don’t care. 

this country is sick. 

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

Good lord.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

It would cost $30 billion to end world hunger for a year. This single year of military spending for one country could give everyone in the world adequate food for over 23 years.

[freshmoviequotes]

The Dictator (2012)

[mediamattersforamerica]

Donald Trump on Fox News, 2013: “If you say ‘who gets fired?,’ it always has to be the top. I mean, problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top, and the president’s the leader.”

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Man yells, “Make America Great Again!” Before shooting 6 people dead.

Man wearing, “Make America Great Again” hat murders 2 strangers for no reason.

A Trump supporter murders 2 police officers because they told him he couldn’t wave a Confederate flag at a high school football game.

Two men beat a homeless man with a metal bar and urinate on him screaming, “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported,” When asked for a comment about the incident Trump defends them saying, “My supporters are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again.”

Trump supporter attacks a Hispanic man and a Muslim student at a gas station while yelling, “Trump! Trump! Trump!”

Trump supporter stabs a black man unprovoked because he was holding hands with a white woman, tells police they need to release him so he can attend a Trump rally that night.

Trump supporter attacks Muslim woman at airport.

A Trump supporter punches a 70 year old protester in the face.

Trump supporter arrested for brutally beating protester.

3 Trump supporters arrested planning terrorist attack to kill Muslims.

Trump supporter confuses an Indian man for a Muslim at restaurant and says, “Things are different now, I don’t want you sand n*ggers sitting next to me.” Before attacking the man.

“We got a new President you fucking f*ggots.” Men yell as they attack gay man.

Trump supporters track down and brutally beat an artist because she made a painting of Trump with a small penis.

Trump supporter who sucker punched protester: “Next time, we might have to kill them.”

Trump is asked to comment on his supporters brutally beating a black man, he responds with, “Maybe he should have been roughed up,”

“You fucking gorillas and baby monkeys, We voted for Trump. Trump’s building a wall, beaners, and you’ll be going back to where you belong.” Man yells at black elementary school children unprovoked before he swerves his car at them attempting to hit them.

Trump supporters beat black man so badly he’s hospitalized for concussion and call him the n-word.

Trump supporter pepper sprays a 15-year-old girl point-blank in the face after another Trump supporter groped her breasts, shouting “n*gger lover” as she attempted to run away.

Trump supporter walks up to a black man in the middle of a downtown area and says, “Donald Trump will deport you.” Before punching the black man.

“Trump is going to win and if you don’t like it I’m going to beat your ass,” Trump supporter yells at random black woman outside of convenient store.

Man attacks and kicks Muslim airport employee shouting, “Trump is here now, he will get rid of all of you.”

In 8 months Trump supporters attacked protesters at 20 different rallies.

Trump supporter tracks down a local Latino Democratic political candidate and tries to run him and his elderly mother over with a car. (The Latino candidate is also a former marine.)

“This is for Donald Trump!” man yells as he runs up a Latino person and punches them in the head.

Trump supporter goes to Hillary Clinton rally to disrupt the event, ends up punching someone when asked to leave.

Trump supporter punches, chokes and slaps protesters on video during rally.

An angry mob of Trump supporters brutally beat and grab a mans genitals because he held up a, “Republicans Against Trump” sign.

A Trump supporter yells, “Get your black kids out of here. Do you even have a job? Do you know what a job is, n*gger?” Before physically attacking a black man who had come to the hospital to get help for his sick 2 week old daughter.

Local Republican Politician sexually assaults a woman by, “grabbing her pussy.” and then says he is allowed to do it because now that Trump is president he doesn’t have to be politically correct.

Canadian man who was a vocal Trump supporter both online and in person goes into a mosque and murders 6 people.

Trump supporter physically assaults Comedian on stage for making Anti-Trump Joke.

Man yells, “Trump” while beating African immigrant cab driver.

A Trump supporter is arrested for burning a Mosque down.

A Trump supporter sees a car has pro-gay bumper stickers on it and then follows the car, waiting for the 75 year old driver to get out before brutally attacking him while screaming, “My new president says we can kill all you f*ggots now.”

A Trump supporter is arrested after brutally attacking gay men outside a McDonald’s. Witnesses describe the aftermath as, “There was blood everywhere.”

A Muslim refugee gay rights activist is kidnapped and raped by two men in retaliation for, “Trump being mocked.”

A Trump supporter is arrested on terrorism charges for building bombs he was going to use to kill Muslims.

Person spray-paints a transgender veterans car with the word “Trump” then sets it on fire.

A Trump supporter attacks two Muslim women and tries to push over a stroller with a baby in it while screaming, “Get the fuck out of America”

A Trump supporter tells a random Muslim woman he sees on the street, “I’m voting for Trump because he said he would send all of you terrorists out of this country.” Before attacking her.

Man shoots out the windows of two businesses from a car while shouting, “Hail Trump.”

[abowles]

It’s ironic that Trump supporters expected black people to respond in this manner for Barack, but he preached peace and common sense.

[cricketcat9]

Trump supporters: the ugliest, most evil, scary face of America.

[reasonandempathy]

Federal Minimum Wage Per Year: $15,080 Gross

After Taxes: $13,926.38, $1,160.53 per month.

Now, let’s do some basic numbers here.  Let’s subtract the median or mean (depending on data access) costs for necessities from this.

Median rent in the USA: $959/month.  $11,508/year.

Average rent for studio in the USA: $1,135.78/month.  $13,629.36.

That’s $11,208 in rent.  The cheapest place to live (Wichita, Kansas) has an average rent of $470  Or $5,640 a year.  If you were to limit it to cities specifically (hence having drastically lower fuel and transit costs), a 1-bedroom apartment would be $1,234.43.

Now, “why get a 1 bedroom when you can get a studio?” is a decent question to ask.  However, check out the link above.  The average studio apartment costs more than the median 1 bedroom, and there is no median cost of a studio I can find in the US.  Studios are also far more likely to be in cities than rural areas, so their simple locations lead them against being cheap.

Unless you can bring me numbers on studio apartments, I literally can’t do that math.  And the entire point of this is to actually use numbers and research.

Remaining cash: $2,718.38.

Theoretical remaining cash: $8,286.38

Cheapest livable diet for one adult: $175/month, $2008/year

The “thrifty plan”, the cheapest meal plan for an adult aged 19-50 is $175/month (slightly more for men, slightly less for women).

Remaining cash: $410.38

Theoretical remaining cash: $6,278.38

Gas+Heating: $138.20/month, $1658.37/year

The cheapest gas in the country is $2.25/gallon in Texas (i.e. not Kansas, so you’re either paying more for rent or more for gas.)  The average gas consumption per driver is at a relative low of 656 gallons per driver (which can be aggregated to “adult not in a city and some adults in cities”).  Using the cheapest possible gas in the country, you’re spending an average of $2.528 per gallon, or $1,658.37/year.  Texas will cost you $1,476 per year.

Remaining cash: $-947.99.

Theoretical remaining cash: $4,620.01

All told, from just those three costs in the best, impossible context you’re spending at least $10,459.99 a year.  In all actuality, you’re probably spending about $15,174.37.  That’s without ever once spending more money on food than you need, never once having your car break down or getting rear ended, and if the average price of gas never goes up an entire year.

Let’s presume you managed to somehow sneak in a house to avoid paying rent, and actually making a smart economic decision to try to own something.  Using the median numbers from 2013 (published in 2015) we come up with how much it actually costs to have a place to live for a year, utilities included.

Real Estate Taxes:  $150 per month or $1,800 per year

Property Insurance:  $63 per month or $756 per year

Electricity:  $111 per month or $1,332 per year

Natural Gas:  $50 per month or $600 per year

Drinking Water:  $42 per month or $504 per year

Trash / Garbage Disposal:  $23 per month or $276 per year

Routine Maintenance:  $33 per month or $396 per year

Add it all up and you get $20,838 a year.  This is not including internet or a phone.  Now, I know, we’re using Median numbers instead of “literally the cheapest option possible”.  So let’s cut all these numbers in half to get a more “bare bones” estimate.

$18,006 a year.

And that’s if you have nothing go wrong and no social life.  If you never go to the doctor, if you never get sick, if your hot water heater never breaks, if your car never gets dinged or breaks down, if you don’t pay for a car inspection, if you have no internet or phone, if you don’t buy toiletries or clothes (honestly, finding “median numbers” on these or “lowest possible spent” on these is unreasonably difficult, so we’ll presume they’re free),if gas never gets more expensive, if your rent never goes up.

[bellygangstaboo]

the tea is scalding

[scottandhiskind]

These are the most stereotypical young republicans I’ve ever seen

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Something for all the “But Mike Pence!!!” types still arguing that we shouldn’t try to impeach Trump.(article)

[pangurbanthewhite]

Thank fuck, someone explained this more eloquently than I could.

(Though another reason this galls me is that Trump should be impeached because he has violated more laws than any president in our history. He needs to be punished for that. Saying that he shouldn’t because you don’t like the guy who comes next is attempting to game the system in much the same way the Republicans have been. Impeachment isn’t about trying to get the president you want. It’s about punishing the ones who break the law.)

[ghost-church]

I try to keep politics off this blog but god damn

[hisnamewasbeanni]

Omg Mike Dense though

[mdmshakespeare]

Maybe we could make history and go for a double impeachment

[thatsmsdragon]

This makes me happy.

[gutterballgt]

He is Mike Dense to me forever now.

[weavemama]

MIKE BROWN WAS INNOCENT 

New footage shows that Mike Brown indeed didn’t rob that convenient store afterall. The video shows Mike entering the store at around 1 a.m on August 9th, 2014, to exchange something (possibly marijuana) for cigars. Before he left the store on that night, he went back to the counter to possibly tell the clerk to hold on to the items. Later on that morning, he went back to the store to retrieve the item. That’s it.  Let’s also not forget that the store owner been admitted that Mike Brown didn’t rob the store. 

The police lied, the police fabricated, and the police try to defame this young boy in order to cover Darren Wilson’s ass. Unfortunately, this new evidence will not bring Mike Brown back, but it does further expose the extreme corruption within our law enforcement. 

[jlbi245]

Maaaan I’m telling you right now black people are so mad here in STL…

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

we been knew the shit and they just know saying it like we aint find that out the next day