Current events, news and policies from a progressive southerner's point of view.
14 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
Senator Cory Booker has dropped out of the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries. Here is the statement which he released on Medium. According to a poll released, by Des Moines Register and CNN, has Sen. Booker was polling at 3% for the first choice...
13 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
The Bernie Sanders Campaign has created a how to vote guide for each state in the US for the Democratic Primaries. There is a tab which individuals may select their state, a map of the US which individuals may click on their state, or they could scro...
12 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
Politico reported that they obtained a script which the Bernie campaign has distributed to canvassers and volunteers. What was reported in the article, since the entire script wasn't posted, seems to be the worst parts of the script; however, they ar...
12 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
For the January Democratic Primary debate, 6 candidates have been announced, and they are: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer. This is the final debate that w...
11 Jan 2020 2 minute read 6 comments SouthernRebel
Senator Bernie Sanders has recently taken the lead in both early states in the Democratic Presidential Primaries, the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary, and we have gotten the first hint of how President Trump will campaign against Sen. Bernie Sa...
11 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
Any time there are talks about increasing the minimum wage, the same talking point comes back, "increasing the minimum wage increases the unemployment rate." Being from the south, all you have to do is look around an know that isn't true. The most re...
11 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
With the tensions that has dramatically ratcheted up with Iran since the beginning of the year, it has got me thinking about how pointless these Middle Eastern wars are, and how much money we have essentially set fire to, considering we haven't benef...
11 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
A poll released by the Des Moines Register and CNN, which was published Jan. 10th, shows that Senator Bernie Sanders has taken the lead in the first caucus state and first voting state in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries. Sen. Sanders has r...
11 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced on Friday, January 10th, that next week she will begin the process to send the Articles of Impeachment of President Trump to the Senate for a trial. Speaker Pelosi has been sitting on the Articles of Impeac...
9 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SouthernRebel
Senator and Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders has received the highly sought after endorsement from the Sunrise Movement, an environmental organization dedicated to solving the existential crisis of Climate Change. After 6 weeks of deliberation a...
