Just confirmation of what us political junkies KNOW….
The social media also drives regular media coverage…
For the second straight week, Bernie Sanders has hit the high watermark for online attention in the Democratic primary, according to data from NewsWhip provided exclusively to Axios.
Why it matters: It’s not just quantity. The sentiment of the top stories about Sanders has been more positive than his top Democratic rivals — particularly Michael Bloomberg, whose recent online attention has been overwhelmingly negative.
By the numbers: Stories about Sanders generated 24 million interactions (likes, comments, shares) on social media last week — up from last week’s 19.5 million, which was the previous high in the primary.
Yes, but: While Sanders has soared to new heights in the Democratic primary, his numbers still don’t come close to Trump, who generated 64 million interactions last week — which wasn’t particularly newsy by Trump standards.
Between the lines: While the top story about Sanders was the Washington Post’s report that he was briefed that Russia was working to support his campaign, the next 13 biggest stories reflected positively on Sanders. They include…
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Joe Walsh–“I’d rather have a socialist in the White House than a con man”
Good on ya Joe!
“I hate to break it to you but if you are really Never Trump there’s no ‘except if he’s a socialist’ footnote. There’s no ‘bur she’s too professorish’ clause”
Joe Walsh.
And still Never Trump of course here. Joe approves. He can do as he wants.
Joe Walsh doesn’t consider you a “Never Trumper” apparently.
He was talking about “NeverTrumpers’ who say they will now consider voting for Trump. I am not one of those people.
Maybe someone should ask him about “Never Trumpets” who write in a vote for Mitt Romney’s Dressage Horse or Dick Cheney’s Pacemaker.
Rafalca Romney is a patriot and Olympic hero.
And Cheney ain’t got no pacemaker anymore. Brand new ticker.
Probably ripped right out of the chest of a healthy young blue-collar worker at Haliburton and they didn’t even give him a week off!
Well you can start a draft campaign!
Rafalca For America!
Socialism is one of the greatest cons in history.
There are problems with socialism, but there are problems with capitalism too – which is why we need a mixed economy.
Capitalism has no real solution for people who are born with a very low IQ, require high medical bills to live or have a major handicap – unless for example that you have the ability like Floyd Mayweather to bust open a person’s head with one punch. In that case, CG believes he should be rewarded by society $100m per fight.
$100m for just one fight could instead provide a quality life for hundreds of people who through no fault of their own (with relatively rare exceptions) can’t make it on their own.
How we as a society distribute our wealth says something about us. And this is a definitely a moral issue.
In fact we HAVE SOCIAL SECURITY…FOOD STAMPS…MEDICAID…MEDICARE….
The mix IS already HERE….
Those examples are not the same thing. We should aspire for as few people as possible to have to be on food stamps or Medicaid.
Socialism is a con and Bernie Sanders is a con-man. He has no intention of telling people what his proposals will cost or that he knows they can never get enacted. Donald Trump is another con-man with socialist/authoritarian tendencies. Neither is worthy of the Presidency of a free nation,
Are conservatives like James and CG going to admit how much it costs when people have to go to the emergency room instead of getting preventative healthcare? There is a reason that most healthcare plans offer a free doctor visit without a co-pay every year, and it is not because health insurers are nice people. It is because it might actually be cheaper to them to pay for a doctor visit with preventative healthcare then to wait for when someone has a disease or condition that makes it much more expensive to treat. And that would be true if we extended it to the non-insured in the US as well.
And rather than just throwing out charges without looking at facts, I would encourage CG and others here who think healthcare for everyone is too expensive to actually research on their own how much healthcare costs in this country compared to healthcare costs in other countries that instead use a public healthcare system. As James likes to lazily write “Let me know what you find out”. I will tell you what you will find out before you reply with some oversimplified article that supports your position. It is that public healthcare in other countries are enormously cheaper than in the US. And in the long term, public healthcare in the US will be less expensive than private healthcare too.
And of course part of the expense that everyone who purchases healthcare pays for is dividends to stockholders, CEO salary, marketing materials, claims costs to research whether the insurer should be responsible for paying the claim etc. These would largely go away with a public healthcare system. And to ignore that these aren’t real is the real “con”.
Lastly, of course Bernie believes what he preaches. Whether he is correct is a different issue, but I don’t have even the slightest doubt that he believe in what he says. Ironically, it is the other politicians who don’t believe in what they say. For example, look at all of the positions Biden changed in the last year. Biden’s new-founded positions were done for political expediency.
Welcome to conservatdom james!
The “simple” answer is healthcare in other countries sucks compared to the U.S. system.
Of course we should strive to take care of all of our people and we always do. Most people want to make their own healthcare choices. We ought to believe in freedom and let them. There are many many reforms that could be done to allow American adults access to the health care choices that best work for them.
Bernie Sanders plan to throw millions of Americans off their health care and to go further than any other industrial country ever has, in outlawing private insurance is besides being unworkable and “wrong, is radical and cruel.
Con-man to the hilt.
Correct diagnosis on Biden though.
Using almost any criteria to measure health, the data does not support your statement that healthcare in the US is better than other countries. Not only is our healthcare system very expensive, it is not effective.
I do agree with you that if you make a lot of money, you will get the best healthcare that money can buy in the USA. But even people who make decent money (like I do) often choose not to go to a doctor when we ideally should because it is so expensive.
Most adults can correctly determine when it is necessary to see a physician and when it is not. Yes, everyone should get a check-up or whatever for preventative care and to discuss any issues at that time.
But if you think your $20-$40 co-pay is expensive now, wait until Berniecare would take over. Who is going to pay for a plan that is three times the size of the entire American economy? Clearly you and people who make much less than you would be taxed into oblivion to pay for it, but Bernie knows it will never pass and is never intended to pass. He just likes hearing people chant his name… just like Trump about his “wall.”
Both con-men.
And the Sanders plan would not outlaw private insurance. Sanders was not given time to respond to Buttigieg’s incorrect statement.
In the short term, private insurance probably wouldn’t exist, but eventually plans would be developed to cover aspects of healthcare that the Sanders plan does not cover. For example, if the eventual Sanders plan does not pay for an experimental drug or cosmetic surgery, then an insurance option could be developed to pay for that plan.
I see nothing cruel whatsoever in giving people better coverage than they have now. And if you truly believe that the people (including many economists) who support a government healthcare plan because they are “cruel”, then you are more clueless than I thought.
Here is what I truly believe about conservatives. Deep down, you know that your arguments are disingenuous, so you believe that liberal arguments must be disingenuous too.
It’s on page 8 of the damn bill. Klobuchar has been telling us.
The Culinary Union told us.
Would they be lying?
Just be honest and embrace the fact that you are a radical.
Floyd Mayweather is a notorious light-puncher. He couldn’t bust someone’s head open with a hammer.
But if Zreebs is not a boxing fan, that is his right. I have not paid to watch boxing in several years myself. The market should determine these things though of course. It’s the only fair way to do so.
Explain your position – like I have. Why does Mayweather deserve $100m per fight just because the market determines that is how much he will receive? An assumption of captitalism is that the market determines the amount we earn in a fair way.
And of course people go to boxing matches with the hope of seeing blood and a knockout.
MMA is much bigger than boxing and has been for some time now, I have never been able to get into it. I realize you may not exactly be up for what is “current.”
Some boxing fans are into the technical aspect of the sport. The lighter-weight divisions have far fewer knockouts and of course there are people there (and professional standards) to deal with any “blood.”
A highly skilled professional athlete will always make a lot of money, as will actors, musicians, etc. etc. The market has a demand and they provide the supply.
It’s not up to the market to divide the pie equally. The pie can be as large as we want it to be and it is should be up to the individual to be able to get as big of a piece as they can.
I strongly agree that the pie should not be divided equally – and I don’t believe Sanders believes that either. I just want the pie to be divided more fairly. And the first critical step is for people to recognized that the market does not distribute the pie fairly.
Who determines what is “fair?” The government?
Why should fairness matter more than opportunity?
Does Zreebs have any thoughts on this story:
https://thebulwark.com/sierra-blanca-is-how-trump-crushes-bernie/