How dare Jake Tapper actually use math? Math is so REPUBLICAN, don’t you know!

If you listened to the first portion of the Democrat debate, there was a very simple question asked: is Medicare for All a good idea that Democrats should be pushing? Well, that set off Bernie Sanders. Did someone spike his pudding with vodka? Bernie is much shoutier that usual tonight, and there will be NO MATH. Well, he took exception to Tapper’s question.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said CNN moderator Jake Tapper’s question during an exchange over Medicare for All tonight was a “Republican talking point.”

The question was: “Are you not willing to fight for ‘Medicare for All’ as Sen. Warren has suggested?”

Here’s what Sanders said:

“What I am talking about and others up here are talking about is no deductibles and no co-payments and Jake, your question is a Republican talking point. At the end of the day and by the way, and by the way, by the way, the health care industry will be advertising tonight on this program.”
Earlier in the debate, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren brought up the issue about Democrats using Republican talking points.”

“Look, let’s be clear about this. We are the Democrats. We are not about trying to take away health care from anyone. That’s what the Republicans are trying to do. And we should stop using Republican talking points in order to talk with each other about how to best provide that health care,” she said.”

Wow, using “Republican” as a slur is… not original. And given how all Republicans have been slandered over the last few week as racist, does calling someone a Republican mean, to the Democrat mind, that they are racist? Hmmmm. You should hear how many times Donald Trump was called racist in the next segement on immigration.

The candidates who are not the big names of this debate are desperately trying to bring some semblance of sanity into this Medicare for All question. John Delaney and Tim Ryan tried addressing the unpopularity of banning private health insurance. Angry Bernie and Elizabeth Warren are having none of that.

"We are the Democrats," says Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "We are not about trying to take away health care from anyone. That's what the Republicans are trying to do." https://t.co/oRT2pUk1W4 #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/nFYhoUy028

— CNN (@CNN) July 31, 2019

It’s okay, Marianne Williamson has it all figured out!

Marianne Williamson 2020:

Make Essential Oils Our Healthcare System

— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) July 31, 2019

Right now, it has become Bernie and Lizzie against everyone else, with the exception of Buttigieg, who is trying to split the difference between both positions and looks like he can’t commit to anything, and Williamson, who was just on the verge of going full anti-vaccination before the moderators saved her from herself.

The Bernie and Lizzie super-team is interesting, mostly because they are competing with each other for the exact same socialist voters. They should be smacking at each other. Instead, Warren is proving that she is just the same as Bernie, and Bernie is yelling a lot and telling people he will raise their taxes and take away their private health insurance.

And they’re both flinging the word “Republican” around as if it’s a dirty slur.

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