More Important: Beating Trump or Stopping Bernie?

JimmyV
JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,598
edited March 2020 in A Moving Train
Given how passionate some of us are about these two prospects, I'm curious which is more important to you. 
(I would have thought this was a ridiculous question, but with the idea circling that some Democrats may refuse to be on a ticket with Bernie if he becomes the nominee, it might be worth asking.)
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More Important: Beating Trump or Stopping Bernie? 45 votes

Beating Trump in the fall
91%
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Stopping Bernie now
8%
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,589
    Beating Trump in the fall
    Like all the experts keep sayin Bernie won’t beat the Baffoon but Biden will? I guess getting Bernie out of the way should be the focus but I’m more concerned with the Baffoon can’t even imagine what 4 more yrs of him will look like ..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • CM189191
    CM189191 Posts: 6,927
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,809
    Beating Trump in the fall
    I don't think the Flying Spaghetti Monster himself could beat Trump.
    Even promises of a heaven with a stripper factory and beer volcano would not be enough.

    That stated -- it is top goal.

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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    Beating Trump in the fall
    I like a lot of Bernie’s stances...though not what I think would be his inability to work with the Dems, much less the GOP.  To me it’s obvious...stopping Trump and what believe is possible authoritarianism. 

    Of course I believe that more Americans are scared of Bernie than Trump.  Socialism is a scarier word (and/or seems more likely) than fascism to most people.

     I don’t think Bernie would be a very effective President but I do think Trump is far more dangerous.  A tougher question is who is more important to beat.  Trump or Moscow Mitch.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,071
    Beating Trump in the fall
    stopping the most corrupt, most cruel, least honest, and most orange president in american history should be the number one priority.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,411
    edited March 2020
    Beating Trump in the fall
    The currently elected president is a lying narcissistic racist xenophobic white nationalist who could care less about the Constitution and the rule of law.

    Now imagine his advisors, believers,  followers,  supporters, and voters.
    Then imagine what this kind of fear, hate, and ignorance is doing to America.

    #trumpslump

  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,912
    Beating Trump in the fall
    i am not a Bernie fan but i'd vote for anyone or anything over Trump.  
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Beating Trump in the fall
    Anybody voting for "Stopping Bernie Now" will be beaten mercilessly with 5,000 wet noodles and, man or woman, will be made to wear one of these outfits until the end of the election:



    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,160
    LEGO wear and a David Byrne jacket. Me likes! Make that a zippered plastic bubble and I’d wear it commuting.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Beating Trump in the fall
    LEGO wear and a David Byrne jacket. Me likes! Make that a zippered plastic bubble and I’d wear it commuting.
    They call that "Corona Wear".  :smile:

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  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,220
    Stopping Bernie now
    brianlux said:
    Anybody voting for "Stopping Bernie Now" will be beaten mercilessly with 5,000 wet noodles and, man or woman, will be made to wear one of these outfits until the end of the election:



    I like those outfits 😂
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Third option:
    Just voting for whoever I think will lead the country the best based on ideals that work for 99.99% of Americans.  I don't care about stopping Trump.  I mean, I do, but it's not a reason I'm voting for any one particular candidate.  I vote for things, not against.
  • Lerxst1992
    Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,860
    Mutually exclusive.  Although covid is a game changer

    But 40% still wont believe safety regulations and healthcare for all is important even if a million deaths
  • EarlWelsh
    EarlWelsh Buffalo, NY Posts: 1,127
    Stopping Bernie is for clowns. He’d pound Donny’s cirrhotic dick into the dirt in a debate, whereas Biden’s eye might pop out or he’ll talk some nonsense and get really angry. If Joe is the nominee, I’m afraid to say he’d lose. Everything.
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,076
    Beating Trump in the fall
    EarlWelsh said:
    Stopping Bernie is for clowns. He’d pound Donny’s cirrhotic dick into the dirt in a debate, whereas Biden’s eye might pop out or he’ll talk some nonsense and get really angry. If Joe is the nominee, I’m afraid to say he’d lose. Everything.
    Finally someone I can agree with
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Beating Trump in the fall
    EarlWelsh said:
    Stopping Bernie is for clowns. He’d pound Donny’s cirrhotic dick into the dirt in a debate, whereas Biden’s eye might pop out or he’ll talk some nonsense and get really angry. If Joe is the nominee, I’m afraid to say he’d lose. Everything.
    Bernie would pound Donny in a debate, but debates don't really mean much.  Hillary pounded Donny and she lost.  Independents don't care for Sanders, African Americans are ambivalent about him, and conservatives can't stand him, the election turnout demos would be bad, bad, bad for Democrats.
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  • EarlWelsh
    EarlWelsh Buffalo, NY Posts: 1,127
    rgambs said:
    EarlWelsh said:
    Stopping Bernie is for clowns. He’d pound Donny’s cirrhotic dick into the dirt in a debate, whereas Biden’s eye might pop out or he’ll talk some nonsense and get really angry. If Joe is the nominee, I’m afraid to say he’d lose. Everything.
    Bernie would pound Donny in a debate, but debates don't really mean much.  Hillary pounded Donny and she lost.  Independents don't care for Sanders, African Americans are ambivalent about him, and conservatives can't stand him, the election turnout demos would be bad, bad, bad for Democrats.
    I respectfully disagree. I think a wider range of electorates do like Sanders, and that number would grow once people actually heard him out. I don’t believe most people who don’t like him have ever really heard what he has to say. They hear/see the word socialism and it turns them right off.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,388
    EarlWelsh said:
    rgambs said:
    EarlWelsh said:
    Stopping Bernie is for clowns. He’d pound Donny’s cirrhotic dick into the dirt in a debate, whereas Biden’s eye might pop out or he’ll talk some nonsense and get really angry. If Joe is the nominee, I’m afraid to say he’d lose. Everything.
    Bernie would pound Donny in a debate, but debates don't really mean much.  Hillary pounded Donny and she lost.  Independents don't care for Sanders, African Americans are ambivalent about him, and conservatives can't stand him, the election turnout demos would be bad, bad, bad for Democrats.
    I respectfully disagree. I think a wider range of electorates do like Sanders, and that number would grow once people actually heard him out. I don’t believe most people who don’t like him have ever really heard what he has to say. They hear/see the word socialism and it turns them right off.
    so where are they at?  why arent they showing up in force to make him the nominee?
    and has he said just how he WILL  get his platform passed? not to mention fully funded....

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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Beating Trump in the fall
    EarlWelsh said:
    rgambs said:
    EarlWelsh said:
    Stopping Bernie is for clowns. He’d pound Donny’s cirrhotic dick into the dirt in a debate, whereas Biden’s eye might pop out or he’ll talk some nonsense and get really angry. If Joe is the nominee, I’m afraid to say he’d lose. Everything.
    Bernie would pound Donny in a debate, but debates don't really mean much.  Hillary pounded Donny and she lost.  Independents don't care for Sanders, African Americans are ambivalent about him, and conservatives can't stand him, the election turnout demos would be bad, bad, bad for Democrats.
    I respectfully disagree. I think a wider range of electorates do like Sanders, and that number would grow once people actually heard him out. I don’t believe most people who don’t like him have ever really heard what he has to say. They hear/see the word socialism and it turns them right off.
    Nothing will change that.  Nothing.
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