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August 30, 2019

I need to know how she gets teased by her family, friends, colleagues and students.

I know she is a great egg. That comes across in all her policy positions. Being able to imagine her being teased would help me see it visually. I'm not getting much of a visual right now and 10% of voters are dyslexics who are visual based. Plus it would diminish how Trump makes fun of her indigenous heritage issue. We are all blessed and challenged. The only person who is the best, least racist, smartest, stable, big crowded politician is Trump. And i'd like to see that contrast between the two of them in the big race. Plus swing state voters seem to like politicians who make gaffes like Biden or Trump. They don't like pointy headed intellectuals. IMHO

August 24, 2019

Moments ago Bernie Sanders rebuked supporters for cheering death of Koch brother.

CNN.

Leaders should be more mature than the voters, not less.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bernie-sanders-scolds-crowd-for-cheering-david-kochs-death-we-neednt-do-that/

Crowd For Cheering David Koch’s Death: ‘We Needn’t Do That’

By Tommy Christopher at Mediaite

"SNIP.....

An audience member who identified himself as “Sam from St. Paul” told Sanders he wanted to ask about criminal justice, and said “Yesterday, oligarch David Koch passed away” to a robust cheer from many in the crowd.

“And we’re going to be dealing with his pollution and the radicalization of his politics, he’s made a killing off of the misery of other people, and I want to talk about retroactive justice,” he continued, and asked “How would you follow up for the victims of folks who are coming down in the future generations?”

“I don’t applaud, you know, the death of somebody. We needn’t do that,” Sanders said, to little discernible reaction from the crowd.

“I think what we can say is that the Koch brothers and other billionaires, because of this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, have been able to spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to represent the wealthy and the powerful, and the fossil fuel industry, which is where the Koch brothers made a lot of their money,” Sanders added.


.....SNIP"

August 24, 2019

Pete for climate tsar. He will be open to the most innovative policies

and will motivate everyone to do their part and feel whole for belonging to a better world.

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