Democratic (Party) Direction

as much as Nance can imagine, anyway

better =/= nice. Again, tired of people acting like Trump somehow changed the objective standards of goodness.

And also, though I don't know the context (was everyone talking about Romney for some reason?), of all the counterfactuals to publicly indulge...?

Yeah, I mean I might be overreading it, but the counterfactual with Romney being president would be one in which he beat Obama in 2012 and then won reelection...

Maybe the joke was that the other 16 GOP candidates were so horrible that she can't imagine even using them rhetorically.

not to mention that a Romney presidency right now would probably mean a much smoother and easier time passing lots of horrific republican legislation, so no thanks

x-post up--- Perez's purge of the Ellison folks is not a good sign

how many thinkpieces will call it "divisive"?

Is it clear that the purged staffers were disproportionately bernie-wing/that that was the motivation? I just want to make sure before I start going on a social media rampage about it.

Keith Ellison for one (who had input in the hirings) plus this... pic.twitter.com/sRnCf5sbEl

— Zachary 🇪🇺 (@zatchry) October 18, 2017

sounds like he really executed order 66 on this one

no public option for 2018 and now openly pining for a Romney presidency lol good luck

medicare / social security for all, birth to the earth. free college tuition. 'pay for it' by taxing the heirs to great american fortunes and the incomes / investments of the wealthy

Reminder that Jeff Stein is the guy who said that “an aide” told him that Dems were going to let the AHCA pass in exchange for Russia sanctions and the usual suspects rampaged/shared it.

Also you’d think the whole threatening nuclear war thing every week alone would mean people would drop
the whole “lol libs would prefer Republican X to Trump!”

more cool Dem moves

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/democrats-plan-to-name-lobbyists-operatives-as-superdelegates

all the learning

Eh, that’s more like “more cool media company stretching to make a story from dull trivial event that always happens and has next to no significance given it’s 2017 moves”

on the other hand:

Others chosen to be at-large members are Ellie Perez of Arizona, an undocumented immigrant who arrived in the United States as a child and is enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program; Marisa Richmond, a transgender African-American woman; and four people from Puerto Rico.]

This is so good:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/on-safari-in-trumps-america/543288/?utm_source=fbb

(h/t Chapo)

that was good, thanks. i can't believe third way still gets taken seriously in some quarters, but here we are

FFS

Tomorrow, the GOP is expected to finally unveil #TrumpTax plan, but w/ planned middle class tax hikes, we're sure it's in the upside down. pic.twitter.com/aCMmaD3EFj

— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) October 31, 2017

what the fuck does that even mean

lol

I wonder how much they pay the staffers on that team. Schumer fired a bunch of them right around Christmas last year.

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/sdmc

JFC, they so much remind me of when my mom tries so hard to use an up-to-date reference in conversation that I don't even know what she's talking about.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW MANY PEOPLE EVEN WATCH STRANGER THINGS?! IT'S SUCH AN OBVIOUSLY SHITTY TAX PLAN JUST SAY IN PLAIN ENGLISH HOW SHITTY IT IS AND WHY!!!!

worse than that, even

i mean worse than moms

my mom would post a bunch of emojis

my mom would have won

<-I'm With DLH's Mom

this seems like a dumb thing to get upset about

I mean who even follows the Official Senate Democrats Twitter Account, this is not important

true I guess but seems symptomatic of a larger problem in their approach

the fish rots from the tweet down

the approach of having no ideas because the Third Way field expedition turned up nothing

great Atlantic piece btw

fwiw Bernie Sanders appearing in NYC to champion a feeble "progressive" like Mayor deBlasio, who's going to win reelection in a landslide only bcz he has two lunatics running against him, is depressing.

i mean, deBlasio is tin-eared and un-self-aware compared to JOHN KERRY.

again, the dateline on this story was 12/20/2016:

Incoming Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer cleaned house last week in the Senate Democrats' internal video department, firing nearly all its employees amid plans to revamp the unit with a new digital operation aimed at creating viral social media content.

Schumer (D-N.Y.) informed the employees of the Senate Democratic Media Center of their dismissal on Friday, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Several people in the unit had been with the in-house video production operation for years; goodbye emails obtained by POLITICO were from staffers who worked in the Senate for 29 years and 20 years, respectively.

More than a half-dozen people were fired, sources said; according to LegiStorm, the media center has eight employees.

"On Friday, December 16, 2016, my colleagues and I in the Senate Democratic Media Center were informed by the incoming Democratic Leaders office that our services were no longer needed," said one staffer in an email to Democratic staffers.

a new digital operation aimed at creating viral social media content.

they'd be better off pilfering from the now-disbanded DSA meme stash

wiw Bernie Sanders appearing in NYC to champion a feeble "progressive" like Mayor deBlasio, who's going to win reelection in a landslide only bcz he has two lunatics running against him, is depressing.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:14 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this bothered me too. DeBlasio really doesn't need his help, and there are candidates that the time would probably be better spent on. IDGI.

speaking of fantastic dem meme direction

It's Halloween and the GOP's scary tax bill is out tomorrow. Grab your “Trident” and let’s fight “Good & Plenty” to defeat it! #NotOnePenny pic.twitter.com/vNePmKjpSO

— Jeff Merkley (@JeffMerkley) October 31, 2017

true I guess but seems symptomatic of a larger problem in their approach

― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, October 31, 2017 6:11 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i mean is their approach to plant Easter Eggs in their bonus materials for Stranger Things fans? it's not the same thing but it shows a pretty narrow audience focus, like it's something for the supposedly smart pop-culture savvy crowd. kind of like "delete your account", everyone was like HILLARY JUST OWNED DONALD IN THREE WORDS and meanwhile no one changed their vote.

pokemon go to the polls

i wasn't sure what to think of the new trump plan, but then i saw a reference to stranger things - which i love, like everyone in the united states - which compared it to being in the upside down of stranger things. now, i know you've seen the show, but if you know one thing about stranger things it's that you don't want to end up in the upside down! no way! and that means no way to this trump tax plan!

DiBlasio has a lot of hate against him from all sides in NY, I can see why Bernie came in
as feeble a progressive as he is, he's the first mayor in a while that doesn't fellate the NYPD at every opportunity. sadly progress

thanks for the third way safari article, really good.

Senator Merkley (D-Ore.) is a bit of a dork, but he's a dork with the right ideas and a willingness to do battle for them. My wife and I gave him $100 so he could accumulate a few more Immortality Points in the D.C. video game: Congressional Empire Building. I believe he will attack the right orcs.

he's the first mayor in a while that doesn't fellate the NYPD at every opportunity.

he kinda does, but the cops hate him anyway

never seen Stranger Things cuz cable

it's not on cable.