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Thanks. I was just going off of what was said here.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2020/jan/09/bernie-sanders/did-biden-laud-paul-ryan-proposal-cut-social-secur/

It looks like PF is correct, but only in the instance of this one video. The bigger picture, as you've shown, is that Biden is one of those Democrats dumb enough to try to cut Social Security.

All I can say, is F that! I have student loans, and will likely need Social Security to retire on. I'll be using these clips at the caucus to get senior voters to walk over to the Bernie side.

I mean, I don't want to convince you to vote for anyone, but it's dishonest to say he's for cutting social security when he has his real current positions on his website:

https://joebiden.com/older-americans/

I think it's been established that he has been on the record wanting to cut Social Security for decades. I don't vote based off of campaign promises. I vote based off of what somebody did or tried to get done in the past.

Bernie has been singing the same song since forever. 1990 Bernie would have told you the same thing that 2020 Bernie will tell you.

Biden obviously can't say that, about himself.

The point of outing his long-standing record on this is to illustrate that Biden isn't reliable and doesn't really have the people's interests at heart. Over the years he has continuously shown that whoever is lining his pockets will have their calls answered, even if that means throwing working and poor people under the bus. Whatever is politically expedient for him. He isn't reliable; his word means nothing because of this. We need a reliable and dependable president that stands by their word and is able to follow through and fight for the people's interests because they aren't bought out by special interests.

To add to everyone else's point, remember a certain candidate touting how they had Private and Public positions? That's the norm unfortunately with the politicians. You have to look at their history and not what's on their current campaign. That's the trick they pull, and Biden again, has been on the wrong side of history for almost everything in the last 40 years. Campaign promises vs your record, and I will always choose your record every time.

If you have older family members or know older people who are thinking about voting Biden, show them that twitter thread, play those videos for them and show them the true Joe Biden. This man is fodder for Trump and even if he could beat Trump he really wouldn't be that much of an improvement. We don't have time for incrementalism when we have a dying planet.

Can it, though? That sort of dynamic quite didn't work out in Australia and the UK recently... or France and Germany, and most of Eastern Europe. Also, Russia and Japan. The examples I could mention go on and on. Of course, each country has its own set or rules, but do they completely escape from what's happening in the international political context?

Bernie has its own set of hurdles to overcome as the nominee. For once, kiss Florida goodbye and pray for the Rust Belt to deliver. Secondly, to pitch a good economy against a true democratic socialist who admits he'll increase middle-class taxes sounds exactly like what Trump would want if he's not running against a moderate. He isn't decrying injustice against Bernie because he wants him to fail after all.

I think some people underestimate the appeal of inertia in politics - how many people in the middle believe, right or wrong, that they need just a little something to change in their lives for things to be fine.

Edit - the same thing applies for all the White hillbillies who would despite any initiative about infrastructure or education in the rural areas and want only someone to deal with the nasy immigrants or own the libs or whatever.

You have to understand that Bernie Sanders positions are centrist in other countries. In germany there is health care for everyone for instance and this is not in the least attacked by chancellor Merkel. In international standards america is extremely right-wing, that includes even democrats. So a left-wing populist for american standards is pretty centrist in most western countries and often someone like that is head of the government.

Why Florida? Polls have shown Bernie doing fine there for months. Here's one from June:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/18/2020-florida-poll-trump-biden-sanders-1368167

And there was one the other day that showed that even though Biden will probably win the Florida primary, Bernie does better than Biden in a head to head against Trump.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/316062-joe-biden-expands-lead-in-florida-primary-fau-poll-shows

As for this "good economy" nonsense, the economy is NOT good. Just because we aren't in a recession...yet...doesn't mean it's good. Wage growth is crap and has been for a long time, living expenses are growing out of control and while a lot of new jobs are being created, they're shitty jobs that people need to work two or three of to get by. Benefits for those jobs are getting worse, people are being laid off even when companies are successful, and really, the only thing up is the stock market, which is meaningless to most Americans, because most stock is owned by rich people and trickle down doesn't work so those rich people increasing their net worth just because some companies stocks went up doesn't affect the larger economy. Inequality is getting worse every year, and while the rent-seeking class demands more and more of the rest of us, we have less and less to satisfy them with because they're already taking a bigger and bigger portion of created wealth. Economic mobility is worse than it's been in a long time. If you're born poor, you'll probably stay poor, and the rich's wealth is more protected than ever so you have to be Trump levels of incompetent to not stay rich (and even then, if you're Trump, you'll still be fine). The middle class is disintegrating as the cost of a middle class lifestyle rises faster than incomes grow. None of this is hard to understand, in fact as good as Bernie is at explaining it, he doesn't need to because it's patently obvious.

And Trump doesn't want Bernie to win the primary, in fact he expects him not to. He's decrying injustice against Bernie for the same reasons as he did in 2016, he expects Bernie to lose and wants Bernie's passionate fans to sit out the general election. It wasn't effective last time beyond a tiny vocal minority, and that minority will be even tinier this time, but I don't blame him for trying, every little bit helps, he only barely won last time. As for middle class taxes, Bernie already has a clear explanation for that: Your healthcare premium goes to zero, all other healthcare costs go to zero, the taxes that go up are less than the costs that go down, so you actually save thousands of dollars.

Although I believe Bernie can win the Midwest, Trump is going to campaign heavily on foreign policy in Florida.
Bernie's positions (as well as the way in which the Trump campaign ads will portray him, fairly or not) is not going to sit well with the Hispanic Population.