#bernie 2016

[feraltwinkseb]

November 27, 2016 - Abu Dhabi Source: ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images

#I have questions and Im okay with them being unanswered #niki lauda #bernie ecclestone #f1 #formula 1 #2016

[tealares-art]

THE BEST PART ABOUT MAKING AN OBJECT SHOW IS THAT NO ONE CAN STOP YOU FROM MAKING THE HOSTS (1) HUMAN VERSIONS AND (2) QUEER LOVERS. GODDAMNIT MAN I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!?!!!

#YES THEIR NAMES ARE BERNIE AND TABBY BLAME ME FROM 2016 I AINT CHANGING IT #SORYR FROR THE CAPS THIS DRAWING JUST MAKE SME REALLY REALLY HAPPY #i made it while listening to will wood it was the best thing ever #YES their designs arent the most appealing ive made. YES they wear random things. BUT THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THEM #THEYRE WEIRD PEOPLE. THEYRE NOT EVEN HUMAN OR OBJECTS THEYTE JUST. AGAHFNHHH #These are ocs and im obsessed witht them.Do you see the problem #i need to make my object show real so soon so mroe ppl . even if its just one or two.can see why i love them #omg. And i can draw them next to 4x. isnt that amazing #God i love art #i love everyhtint i love you osc #oc #jhf posting

[deadpresidents]

Do you think Biden would have beaten Trump had he run in 2016? I know Biden stepped aside because because of his son, but it also seems likely he stepped aside for Clinton.

Yes, I do think that Biden would have beaten Trump in 2016. I don't know how Biden would have handled a campaign at that time with the death of his son having taken place much more recently, but if he could have emotionally handled the rigors of a full-on Presidential campaign at that time, I think he would have beaten Trump in the general election.

The question to me is whether or not Biden could have won the Democratic nomination in 2016 if he had run against Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Obviously, Biden was younger at the time than he is now and still a much better retail campaigner than Hillary ever was, but I don't know if a Biden campaign in 2016 would have had the same energy as the Sanders campaign that year -- either from the grassroots or from the top-down. It would have been a much different campaign than 2020, as well, because that one took place during the pandemic and Biden was able to run against an historically unpopular incumbent in the midst of botching the worst public health crisis that every voter in America had ever lived through.

The other big question if Biden had run in 2016 is the role of Barack Obama. In 2016, Biden was the incumbent Vice President, finishing his second term of a partnership with President Obama that ended up being one of the closest personal and political relationships that a President and Vice President ever had. But it is no secret that President Obama did not believe that then-Vice President Biden was the best choice to succeed him. Biden's emotional well-being after the death of his son in May 2015 certainly worried Obama, but in books and reporting since that time, it's been apparent that Obama believed that Hillary Clinton made more sense as his successor in 2016 than Biden for a number of reasons. That ultimately resulted in some hurt feelings on the Biden side at the time when Obama seemed to be urging Biden to step aside in 2016 while the Vice President was still considering a potential run. It never impacted Biden's loyalty to the Obama Administration or truly got personal, but it was especially troubling to Biden because he still had not made a final decision about a potential 2016 campaign and one of Beau Biden's dying wishes was that his father would run for President. Obama never directly discouraged Biden from running in 2016; he thought that Biden earned the right to make his own decision about the race, but he was worried about Biden's emotional state in the wake of Beau's recent death, he worried that Biden wasn't the right candidate to defeat Hillary or Bernie for the nomination, and he worried that a potential Biden loss -- either in the primaries or the general election -- would tarnish Biden's overall political legacy and possibly come across as a repudiation of the Obama Administration eight years in the White House.

Of course, Trump's victory over Hillary in 2016 gave Obama's successor the opportunity to immediately start reversing many of Obama's accomplishments and reset the hope and change represented by Obama's successful 2008 campaign. And the irony is that the crucial, traditionally-Democratic blue-collar voters that Hillary Clinton's campaign tended to overlook in 2016 are the same voters that Biden has spent a significant portion of his political career representing and connecting with. So in 2016, Trump won battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Ohio that Obama had won in both 2008 and 2012. Without those states in 2016, Trump wouldn't have defeated Hillary Clinton, and when Biden did run against Trump in 2020, his victories in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania (Trump once again won Ohio and Iowa) were crucial in the Electoral College.

#History #Presidents #Presidential Elections #Politics #Presidential Politics #2016 Election #2020 Election #Joe Biden #President Biden #Hillary Clinton #Barack Obama #President Obama #Donald Trump #President Trump #Elections #Presidential Campaigns #2016 Democratic Presidential nomination #Bernie Sanders #Democratic Party

[mediumtires]

#i spy with my little eye #a sneaky husband in red bull hospitality #:) #had to attend bernie’s birthday celebrations of course one of his dogs is named after the man #christian horner #toto wolff #red bull racing #ca 2016 #listen i’m having way too much fun with this

[taiwantalk]

#democracy means anyone could win an election #all these articles speculating on the threat of 3rd party are just stupid #of course there’s real possibility of trump getting elected. #the problem is always squarely on the voters and supporters #it’s as simply as people of any demographic willing to float the opposition’s propaganda #and clearly we have a very short memory how trump won 2016 with fakenews on Facebook about how Hillary was sick #trump’s path to victory in 2016 was about Bernie sander being sandbagged by democrats #trump’s path to victory in 2016 is being used again on biden #if any of you remember trump in 2016 was bashing hillary on her health and then spread rumors about pizzagate #and spreading falsehood on hillary killing one of her staff #if you don’t remember any of such fake news well america deserves to have trump elected #taiwantalk

[oifaaa]

I'm not from Ireland, but I absolutely understood your reference! I play violin and fiddle music is one of my favorite genres to play. I actually first heard Galway Girl from the movie Finding You. (If you haven't watched it, it's a lovely movie about a classical violinist traveling to Ireland and learning to play fiddle music. I highly recommend it, despite what others may say.) I love playing the tune on occasion! It's so pretty! (Also, I absolutely despise Ed Sheeran's version.)

Fun wee fact about Galway girl it was actually written and sung by an American with help from irish musician Sharon Shannon it was always way more popular in Ireland tho but yeah I can't stand the ed sheeran song he even said he was aware of the original song but didn't care like come on dude

#ask #anon #for some reason it also really annoyed me that the lady in eds music video is blonde #like you couldnt even have a wee nod to the og song by having the girl have black hair #come on now #im also just looking through the American dudes wiki #you know just to check #and apparently hes a socialist who supported bernie in 2016 #thats nice to know

[shamemp3]

my mom telling me she got asked if she was argentinean or brazilian today…the arab latine appearance paradox

#this happens all the time … when we were in nyc during the 2016 elections and a guy asked us who we wanted to win and we #said bernie and he gave the whole family a ‘latinos for bernie’ badge

[jacobglaser]

Every time Misha tweets I feel like

#'im not a bernie bro but' shut up shut up shut up its not 2016 anymore get a grip #just say you agree with him! you dont need this soft lib qualifier! #I'll always have a soft spot for him but he's such a drip sometimes #his tweet when trump got covid was peak misha

[herohimbowhore]

On This Day in F1: March 23rd

Present: Australia Day 2

History: 2016 GPDA Letter

On March 23rd, 2024, day 2 of the Australian Grand Prix was happening. There was continued backlash against Williams' decision to switch out Logan Sargeant for Alex Albon after Albon crashed his car the previous day. Sargeant was in the garage and showed professionalism concerning the situation.

But this situation has brought forth questions about parts allotment and what would happen if there were to be another unfixable Williams crash in the next few races.

Eight years prior, the GPDA was raising concerns over the direction of Formula One. In the letter, the GPDA directors urged F1 owners and stakeholders to rethink the governance structure. Though not explicitly named in the letter, it alluded to the GPDA's issues with then-owner Bernie Ecclestone.

(Letter Transcript)

Just hours after the open letter was published, it was announced that Sky would get the broadcasting rights to F1. For the first time in 40 years, F1's broadcast would be moved from live free-to-air television in the UK. The following day, the new qualifying system was adopted by FIA President Jean Todt despite it being abandoned by teams following their criticism of it at the first race of the 2016 season.

These were just two of the reasons that caused the drivers to pen this open letter. Other decision-making concerns included:

the double points for just the 2014 final race which was the title-deciding race between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg

the major flaws with the hybrid engine regulations that were just being addressed

proposal to introduce a cheaper alternative engine to run alongside the turbo hybrids, with an equivalence formula to balance performance

All of these decisions could be traced back to either Ecclestone or Todt. Most of these decisions were to either spice up the racing or get more money.

In response to the letter, Bernie Ecclestone called the F1 drivers windbags and essentially powerless in enacting change within the sport.

Windbags United is what the 2016 drivers' dinner picture was captioned and was a jab at Ecclestone. (The dinner in itself is something to discuss on its own with drama over who paid the bill.)

______ Previous: Mar. 22 - 1992 Mexican Grand Prix

Next: Mar. 24 - Australian Grand Prix

On This Day in F1 Masterlist

#on this day in f1 #formula 1 #f1 #williams racing #f1 2016 #gpda #bernie ecclestone #jean todt #windbags united

[featuresofinterest]

i thank god every day my dad has a journalism background and like. has respect for mainstream news outlets. he might be an old ignorant white boomer man but he hasn't fallen down any weird conservative rabbit holes and has been normal about trump and covid and we celebrate that lmao because some of my other family members have not been so lucky

#i found the twitter account for one of my uncles and hooooooo boy. thank you dad for being better than many of my relatives #remembering the time my dad went with me to a bernie rally in 2016 (i think?). that was based of him

[sawthatmountainburn]

I was going to say we need to create a social norm against whipping out your trauma as a trumo card in online arguments, but honestly a significant amount of people's politics on here are based on how triggered something makes them, it might just be a pipe dream. but still it's worth stating: just because a situation or person vaguely reminds you of some traumatic experience doesn't make it actually similar, nor does it make it appropriate to just lay out that experience in front of thousands of onlime strangers. a guy glibly telling annoying pirate show fans they should be having gay sex is not your shitty abusive ex nor does he need to know about your shitty ex. a politician raising his voice and being passionate about his beliefs is not the same as your dad yelling over crockpot, nor is it appropriate to bring up this story when arguing about why you don't like said politician. people wearing pup hoods at pride are not the same as your dad sexually assaulting you as a child, nor is it appropriate to bring up the assault in arguments about kink at pride. etc.

#river.txt #all three are real examples #one was recent #the second one was at the high of bernie hysteria #and the third one is from a blogger that I was moots with for a while in... 2016/2017 maybe? #but there's more examples out there i'm sure

[scary-ivy]

People talk a lot about how the Republican party is falling apart and imploding, but honestly the same thing is happening to the Democratic party as well, just in a less outwardly flashy way. They're both getting worse and drifting away from their purported values and they're making each other worse as they drag each other down like two crabs in a bucket. The Democratic party is now a lot like what the Republican party used to be like, and the Republican party is now the "let's install a dictatorship" party.

#Everything went wrong when they stiffled Bernie in 2016 #Like that had a domino effect on both parties

[ansburg]

people be like "damn it's fucked up that milk and eggs are 700% of normal price. anyway prepare to vote for biden"

#like. you do understand there's a whole ass year of campaigning debates and policy discussion to be had before that right. right #yes the democratic establishment will push biden as the incumbent if not kamala but you SHOULD be hoping that progressives #such as marianne williamson do get traction (and btw she is polling at 10% now which is huge #bc not even bernie had those numbers at this point in the game when he ran in 2016) #bc progressives on the stage - even if they don't WIN - push the needle left #bc they are running on popular movements which would otherwise get shafted as impossible #like the $15 minimum wage. college debt forgiveness. literally anything that has had populist support LMAO #like i swear to god. get your heads out of the sand and start dreaming bigger than the hellhole you think we're stuck with #politics cw

[vro0m]

Excerpt from a 2016 interview of Bernie Ecclestone right after Liberty Media bought F1 :

Completely unrelated thing that happened last week :

#Hopefully he's does better at the other thing? I guess? #f1 #2016 #2023 #bernie ecclestone

[deadpresidents]

Do you think Bernie Sanders would have been able to beat Trump in either 2016 or 2020?

I do think Bernie Sanders would have defeated Trump in 2020 if he had been the Democratic nominee. I'm less confident about how he would fared in a general election in 2016.

#2016 Election #2020 Election #Bernie Sanders #Donald Trump #President Trump #Presidential Politics #Politics #Presidency #Presidential Elections

[astoriachef]

#hillary clinton #bernie sanders #bernie wouldn't have won #2016 election #thanks berniebros