Democratic (Party) Direction

Maybe we should put our money, our words, our time and and votes towards Democratic candidates

Losing keeps you pure.

i'm just not inspired to do any better

Losing keeps you pure.

― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, July 24, 2018 9j

The GOP learned this between 1932 and 1968. It helped!

Roe vs Wade might be gone in the next 12 months and liberals are still discussing who should have won the 2016 primary.

Thesis statement for your blog post.

It might be called 'snark on the internet, infinitely more valuable than winning elections'.

Roe v Wade isn't going to be overturned, and none of the other court precedents protecting women's rights to an abortion are going to be overturned either. They certainly won't be by Kavanaugh.

I think I hate this thread too.

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Curt Schilling is/was running against Warren for her senate seat. Massachusetts is likely blue, though not definitely. Gov. Charlie Baker (R) is super popular and both western parts of the state and exurbs are deepening in redness.

She's a better candidate than Ossoff was, but we'll see xp

Sorry, Curt Schilling is apparently not running against Warren. Fran Drescher’s ex is. (xp to self)

Roe v Wade isn't going to be overturned, and none of the other court precedents protecting women's rights to an abortion are going to be overturned either. They certainly won't be by Kavanaugh.

― No organ. (crüt), Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:13 PM (forty-one minutes ago)

I don't know how you're so sure about this. At the very least they're going to be chipping away at it

Fair points all but does Baker's popularity mean much in terms of the prospects for national-level Republicans in MA? Iirc,he has openly opposed Trump on immigration policy and the Paris agreement and is pro-choice. xp

think stacey abrams has any chance against garbage-person kemp in the georgia governor race?

nope

I think Clinton is smart and qualified etc, but it was insane to nominate the most hated person in America

"Americans once again are most likely to name Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as the man and woman living anywhere in the world they admire most, as they have for the past 10 years."

https://news.gallup.com/poll/224672/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-retain-admired-titles.aspx

On a steady decline from 2013, granted, when she was the most popular politician in the US (and it wasn't even close).

No, everyone hates Hillary. Everyone knows everyone hates Hillary.

tbf you can be most liked and also most hated, just ask FDR, Nixon, probably Reagan, Taylor Swift, etc.

oh man taylor swift's presidency was the fucking worst

think stacey abrams has any chance against garbage-person kemp in the georgia governor race?

― the bhagwanadook (symsymsym), Wednesday, July 25, 2018 12:01 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it's going to be tough but she absolutely can win. Georgia has the second-highest proportion of African-Americans in the country, one of the biggest cities in the country, and a very liberal college town. Hillary actually outperformed Obama in Georgia, so it's trending in the right direction.

yeah the guy who “invented email” (lol) is running against warren as an independent and he’s gotten pretty nasty and trumpy. i don’t think it’ll work - people here seem to correctly think that he’s an insane crank with no ideas - but who knows

Dr Casino correct

story out today that the Grifter "most fears" running vs Biden in '20. DO NOT TAKE THIS BAIT, DEMS.

genuine q: morbs, who should the dems be running in 2020? bernie?

I dont like it but hard to see joe not running

luv2choose between two septuagenerian gropers, good luck usa

Exactly

I dont like it but hard to see joe not running

You don't think his single-digit successes in his first two runs will dissuade him? I do.

bg, i don't know. No geezers, esp assholes like Biden. Turn the fucking page.

For real despair, look at how Sen. Rodham Clinton is pandering to libs and righties on alternate days. "Congress run like a plantation," "I'd bomb Iran," etc.

Please God, take Hilary quietly so she won't fuck up the party with a presidential campaign. WORST POSSIBLE CANDIDATE EVER.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:54 PM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Berniebros must have a time machine to be planting this seed all the way back in 2006.

Dude

morbs otm

Biden's only appeal is that he seems like a guy who might stand up well against Trump on a debate stage. But tbqh Hillary stood up against him better than most of the GOP guys who he demolished in the primary, and that wasn't enough.

Biden’s only appeal is that he symbolizes a return to the Obama era. Retreating to the past can be a winning move for conservatives, not so much for he democratic primary of 2020

biden's only appeal is that people confuse the actual him with the onion version of him

Biden's only appeal is teeth.

I still have no favorite candidate for 2020. I'm not keen on Bernie running again either. But that's why you have a primary rather than anointing someone in advance.

gazzara and man alive both otm. i was just saying that to the missus last night, that the only good thing about Biden being the nominee would be that I think he's the only one who would be willing to absolutely clown Trump. and while it's nowhere near the top of the list in terms of priorities for ending our current nightmare, I have to admit part of me really wants to see that happen.

in seriousness, I just have a bad feeling that a lot of other potential candidates are going to try and engage Trump in good faith, and maybe that will still work out anyway and they'll still win, but it could also backfire, plus I'm just really fucking sick of seeing it. I so desperately want someone to get up on a debate stage with him, listen to his gibberish and then just say "How the fuck do I even respond to that idiocy? This motherfucker doesn't know what he's talking about."

Booker would look like a giant idiot against Trump.

Agreed

not sure he needs trump's help for that tbf

depending on his opponent though, I could certainly see Trump just refusing to do any debates. (and I know I'm placing outsized importance on them).

Maybe someone should finally call trump on his idea to “do IQ tests”, on live tv

what's marilyn vos savant up to

bg, i don't know. No geezers, esp assholes like Biden. Turn the fucking page.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, July 25, 2018 10:29 AM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

yeah the party that is currently finding its new icon in AOC is definitely gonna go for an extremely old white dude

thread really fucking delivers, guys

so who are they gonna go for? aoc is indeed extremely good but the dem benches are not exactly packed deep with committed socialists whose hands are clean of the dem's past mistakes, and even if the midterms see more of their number join the party they're gonna have to move pretty fast to make it to 2020 candidacy

It’s Gillibrand’s if she wants it and she’s made it pretty clear she does.

How about we wait to see what happens, as it's about 17 months to the first caucus and we have NO idea where this country is going to be then (including the possibility that Klaatu's race will exterminate us for stupidity)?