Joe Biden is a proponent of the Drug War, NAFTA & TPP. He thinks net neutrality is unnecessary. He helped deregulate Wall St, voted for the Iraq War, voted to gut welfare, wrote & defended the '94 crime bill, voted for a border fence,& laid the groundwork + voted for PATRIOT Act.

https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1035235533189001216

Biden thinks millennials should stop complaining about how they're inheriting a climate crisis and an economy defined by staggering inequality, unaffordable health care, low-paying jobs without benefits, and crippling student debt. He doesn't think billionaires are a problem.

WaPo comes out swinging against Ocasio-Cortez in problematic fact check. (Thread)

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1027862203284840448

Fact check 1: AOC overstepped on assertion that “everyone is working multiple jobs.”

Besides missing the forest for the trees, WaPo asserts that the number of people working multiple jobs has declined based on BLS statistics. But that’s probably inaccurate.

Still wrapping my head around the fact that there are some liberals out there who fervently deny that economic stress exacerbates prejudice. It's almost as if they'd rather talk about anything other than inequality. "Our main finding—that scarcity alters the visual perception of
African Americans in a way that promotes disparities—issues
a new challenge to efforts aimed at reducing discrimination."
pnas.org/content/pnas/e…

Bigger threats to American democracy than Russia:

- Climate change
- Financial deregulation
- Money in politics
- Systemic Racism
- Current state of health care
- Billionaires
- Homelessness
- Stagnant wages
- Decline of unions
- Mega corporations like Amazon
- Spending cuts - Mass surveillance
- Militarized police
- Work requirements for welfare
- Defense contractors

Today, @JenAshleyWright tweeted this, garnering thousands of likes/retweets. She has since deleted it, but I think it is important to have a record. This tweet is illustrative of why there is still a divide among Democrats. (Thread) To many liberals, problems that existed before 2016 were acceptable/hardly warranted the kind of change a certain VT Sen was talking about. Those included immigrant internment, child casualties abroad, extrajudicial killings,prosecution of whistle-blowers, and galling inequality

In 2018, the DNC paid $570,000 to Onward Together for "list acquisition." This comes at a time when the organization is having difficulty funding state parties. Starting on December 12, 2017 and ending in late February 2018 (while the DNC was making its payments to Clinton’s group), the DCCC paid Onward Together $710,868 for “generic committee list rental.”

Sanders let the cat out of the bag in 2016 by speaking the truth about our system. An aging establishment has been playing a game of whack-a-mole ever since, trying to contain progressive challengers as they crop up. But it can't win long term bc the young people are with Bernie. Young people have come into an employer's job market where they're not paid what they're worth; where they can't afford to get sick; where they can't afford to buy a house or have children; where they can't pay off their student loan debt; where they don't have benefits...

Russia isn't why 78 percent of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck; why the wealth gap is the largest it has ever been; why 31 million Americans are underinsured; why only 27 percent of Americans voted for the candidate representing the political establishment that allowed this. Russia isn't why black Americans receive harsher sentences than whites for the same crimes; why black Americans are more likely to be the victims of police violence; why the U.S. represents 22 percent of the world's prison population; why a movement has grown up in backlash.