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artappraiser — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 04:05:34 +0000

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Far-Right Smear Merchants Try to Slime Pete Buttigieg with Bogus Sex Assault Claim

The mayor was briefly accused of assaulting a young man. A GOP source says right-wing operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman approached him to make similarly untrue accusations.

Exclusive @ DailyBeast.com, 04.29.19 7:56 PM ET

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artappraiser — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 04:01:48 +0000

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NEW: Pride vs. Pence: Gay Republicans grapple with Buttigieg breakouthttps://t.co/ZuYstdJdW2
— Daniel Strauss (@DanielStrauss4) April 27, 2019

doh, gay money:

artappraiser — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:53:51 +0000

In reply to Rivals are scrambling to dig up dirt on Pete Buttigieg

doh, gay money:

“It’s exciting for us because it signifies promise,” one fundraiser said about Buttigieg's campaign. “That we are all part of this and we are living the revolution” https://t.co/VboYp68pH8
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) April 28, 2019

As it stands now, most

rmrd0000 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:39:31 +0000

In reply to The tribes are not going away

As it stands now, most Democrats feel Biden has the best chance to be elected. Obviously it is too early to tell.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-think-biden-is-electable-but-hes-not-everyones-first-choice/

Edit to add:

The beauty of tribal coalitions is seen in the friendship of Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley working together on a variety of issues while still representing their tribes.

The tribes are not going away

rmrd0000 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:23:57 +0000

In reply to Welcome to 2020

The tribes are not going away. This is especially true when tribes are told that are playing pity olympics. Democrats are looking for a win. Some groups may criticize Centrists or candidates they deem less Progressive, the majority of Democrats simply want to win. This is precisely why Symone Sanders joined the Biden campaign.

We will see where Buttigieg stands after South Carolina and California.

The pity olympics tag simply encourages the tribes to recruit more people to their side. The tribes are winning. We are discussing reparations, black maternal health, etc. Georgetown just approved funding reparations for descendants of people who were enslaved.

The bots can’t counter the outrage the tribes feel about the election of Donald Trump. 2020 will be about “Anybody but Trump.”

Welcome to 2020

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:22:06 +0000

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Welcome to 2020

Where we repeat a lot of the things that happened with Hillary? Including bots picking up on any whiff of this identity politics stuff and stoking the divisiveness it causes in the important swing districts as to primary election? (I.E.: hi centrist guys in the suburbs, are you really really sure you want a woman as president if we can manage to brand her as talking pro-militant feminism and anti-male?)

Psst: ever think Mayor Pete is gaining popularity precisely because he refuses to play the game? But unlike Bernie, in a smart way. Same as Obama.

Buttigieg and the other males

rmrd0000 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:30:29 +0000

In reply to Rivals are scrambling to dig up dirt on Pete Buttigieg

Buttigieg and the other males in the race are going to face questions about gender bias.

That’s why watching South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who represents a population smaller than a New York City council district, outpoll Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren makes many of us want to eat glass; an entirely rational reaction to a datapoint that might discourage anyone without a Y chromosome. What the 2020 presidential primary is already making clear is that, as one of us wrote about Ivanka Trump, it’s time to ditch empowerment politics that places the onus entirely on women to succeed and allows men to feel like they're doing something for women without giving anything up.

Speaking of not giving anything up, the most recent Emerson poll shows Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke all ahead of the nearest women, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.

Welcome to 2020

Warren gets very tribal in

rmrd0000 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:24:49 +0000

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Warren gets very tribal in attacking the black maternal mortality rate

The U.S. has the worst maternal mortality rate among all developed countries, and though the rate has been falling in other nations, it has been rising in the U.S. in recent years.

Warren called out the “specific problem” facing women of color: The risk of pregnancy-related deaths for black women is three to four times higher than for white women, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tennis star Serena Williams and singer Beyoncé, in her recently released Netflix documentary “Homecoming,” have publicly discussed the difficulties and complications they faced in childbirth.

“The best studies that I’ve seen put it down to just one thing: prejudice,” Warren said Wednesday. “Doctors and nurses don’t hear African American women’s medical issues the same way as they hear the same things from white women.”

“I got a plan,” she added, to cheers from the crowd of about 1,700 people, largely women of color, at the event at Texas Southern University, a historically black college.

“I want to talk to the hospitals... in the language they understand: money.”

Warren laid out a plan to have medical providers’ funding be contingent on the quality of care they give to mothers, and specifically to black moms

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-black-maternal-mortality_n_5cc0e93fe4b0ad77ff7f717b

Why would black voters cast a ballot for someone who labeled black concerns a pity olympics?

Edit to add:

Buttigieg and all the other candidates are going to be attacked for their views on ethnic minorities, women, and LGBT issues. It is thymos. The bulk of the attacks will come from activists groups rather than the other candidates.

Trump plays to his tribalists

rmrd0000 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 10:33:12 +0000

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Trump plays to his tribalists. Democrats will address issues that impact various tribes. Biden latched his campaign with an ad that was heavy on Charlottesville and Trump’s pathetic response. It is a tribal message.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/25/675382786/joe-biden-officially-announces-2020-presidential-run

Democratic candidates showed up at a forum for women of color, making clear that they wanted their votes.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/24/18511353/kamala-harris-election-2020-she-the-people-democratic-primary

Democrats will appear at events held by multiple tribes as they seek the Presidency. Tribes will form coalitions to elect the Democratic candidate.

Claire McCaskill rejected appealing to tribes. McCaskill is now the former Senator from Missouri.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/midterms/article221761390.html

The United States is a diverse country. Celebrate the tribes. Defeat the tribalists.

I would just add that

artappraiser — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 21:29:47 +0000

In reply to Tribalism in it's "normal"

I would just add that tribalism by genetics, i.e. skin color, ethnicity is not "normal" biologically either. It's called being inbred, it's physically unhealthy. Successful "tribal" groups always sought out fresh genes, mix it up.