Democratic (Party) Direction

That tweet is so stupid I just choked on my eyes rolling into the back of my head.

Corporate personhood is a concept created by the judiciary, and will only be abolished by the judiciary.

Not strictly true -- when I was working for democracy reform we aimed at a constitutional amendment, which has picked up not insignificant approval at the state level in a number of places.

Common Cause and Represent.Us are both pursuing this state-based approach, following what they (imo shakily) insist is the model of the civil rights movement.

5 minutes: aw yea
5 months: let's go
5 years: that's my shit
5 decades: now you're speaking my language
5 centuries: whoa boy let's not get ahead of ourselves
5 millennia: Galaxy brain

“I’m gonna take the table,” says @Ocasio2018, “because we are busting down the doors.” pic.twitter.com/tQ8IebKtBb

— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) November 13, 2018

swoon

5 millennia: my longest yeah boy ever

Meanwhile geologists are like "Hmph. Pikers."

spurs timetable for moving into new stadium iirc

this owns almost as much as watching scumbarnacles like ragnarok lobster meltdown over it

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sunrise-activists-nancy-pelosi/

lol so glad I have no idea who that is

like, in ignorance, i don't really imagine pelosi seeing aoc's position here as a personal problem. maybe because i don't care if that's pelosi's take, or cuz aoc's position needs action, or cuz i am ok with both of them generally.

and yeah me neither, i was thinking the person raggy was having a "lobster meltdown," not raggy l having a normal meltdown.

ragnarok lobster is................................................very bad

ragnarok lobster
ragnarok lobster

tweeter's tweetin'
socialist swattin'
left wing rippin'
keyboard tappin'

ha i just saw other thread and twitter and pelosi did indeed react very much in my imagined character for her. xp

otoh lobster meltdowns (with butter) are too too cruel but quite delicious.

checkin up on old rag lob led me to this, and wow folks it's such a bad tweet

Hi I’m the new sales rep. I haven’t sold shit ain’t hit nary a quota, but here let me walk in the corner office of the lady that buys a new BMW every quarter off the interest of her residuals and no not beg for her knowledge tell her how to sell. Holy shit.

— Sir Baba Adeptus Oracle of Civility (@brill_inst) November 13, 2018

the wave emoji people (<--- this is twitter for angry centrists who think AOC is an all-talk bernie-in-WOC's clothing) are yelling that it was leaked last week that the select committee would be reestablished, that this was already pelosi's plan, that AOC is embarassing herself by not knowing this

obviously the idiots haven't followed quite closely enough to notice that along with 're-establish the select committee' there's also a draft resolution for its new mandate framed as exploration for a green jobs for all plan, and that's the real heart of the ask

oversimplification of your opponent's position is a prominent tool in the political toolbox.

you should really change your DN to Captain Obvious

you should calm the fuck down

I'm much better now that I have the new killfile script, thanks

https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brightest/myopia-rules-lehmann

^^ Chris Lehmann has a talent for scornful prosing. I know there's a place for that in political discourse, but it's a place full of enthusiasts who only want to hear someone who tells them how very right they are. I mean, yeah, good for them for being right, but doing right beats being right and Chris fails to reach for that conclusion, which kinda falls flat for me.

aimless you are awful

― homosexual II, Monday, December 16, 2013

Oh boy! I've grown a tail!

sleeve im no civility cop but cmon try to be nice man we all like to hang out here

OK

can we talk about the whole "Clinton's gonna run again" blip in the media cycle, which seems to have already been discredited as nonsense from a former staffer? like, was the point of that just to rile people up and push those good old 2016 buttons? who pushes these stories? it it just the media's compulsive need for drama?

yes

the media's, and social media's

there were people in media obsessed with whether John Kerry was going to run again in 2008

The veteran Democrats named as wary about a Green New Deal in this article have accepted nearly https://twitter.com/KateAronoff/status/1063507622823890945 million in campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests https://t.co/BBlMdFgpUd

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) November 16, 2018

dollar signs really fuck up tweet posts, apparently.

it's weird that these shitty centrist dems are making their power play at a moment when they could not be less relevant to the future of the party.

tbf shitty centrist dems are literally in a permanent power play

really ready for someone to primary Defazio at this point

i still want to find someone to take a run at schrader in OR-5, dude is the bluest of blue dogs

On Nov. 18, Bill and Hillary Clinton will launch a nationwide tour of 13 cities, kicking off in Las Vegas.

The show, dubbed “An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,” has been organized by Live Nation.

“From the American presidency to the halls of the Senate and State Department to one of the United States’ most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections, they provide a unique perspective on the past, and remarkable insight into where we go from here,” the show’s web site declares.

Bring some long green. Ticket prices will range from $750 to $72 per person, reports Fortune magazine.

If the Clintons pack them in, consider that a valuable gauge of Hillary’s viability.

Does Hillary still sell?

https://chicago.suntimes.com/?post_type=cst_article&p=1467238

Whoa, awesome!! Hope it’s not sold out already!

I really should have linked to the title of the article, which is:

Hillary Clinton remains the Democrats best chance to defeat Trump in 2020

in the spring, Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are opening in a Broadway play entitled Hillary and Clinton

i sincerely hope they are the only Clintons visible then

"my first question is for bill, how much 'baitin do you get in now that you don't have any government work to do? and when you're done, same question for hillary."

I hope they've got the requisite world class security planned. Maybe my barometer of the preponderance of racist yahoos has been skewed by the last few weeks but the two of them together on a scheduled public adulation tour feels like a MAGA madman magnet.

Maybe that's the idea. Lure the maniacs in and round 'em up (and give 'em all jobs with their local sheriff's department and send 'em on their way).

Ojeda standing for 2020.

Its probably too early for him but I think its good he's having a run. The main problem is surely coal/environment though. His pro-coal stance is a big disadvantage in getting the nomination. He'd surely smash the general though

I've seen references to Ojeda being #problematic but I can't seem to find any more concrete info. His hardman act makes me kinda uncomfortable tbh

i still want to find someone to take a run at schrader in OR-5, dude is the bluest of blue dogs

― Clay

reddest surely

i would love them to find someone to run against schrader in clackamas and i would love them to do a better job than the colossal fuck-up they went through trying to get knute's old seat

I've seen references to Ojeda being #problematic but I can't seem to find any more concrete info. His hardman act makes me kinda uncomfortable tbh

― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, November 22, 2018 2:37 PM (nine minutes ago)

yeahhhhh I'm a little nervous about white miliary dudes, sorry not sorry. he seems ok tho otherwise

here's an article on him from yesterday: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/richard-ojeda-isnt-like-other-democrats-is-that-good.html

oh also that whole "voted for Trump" thing is going to haunt him forever not unlike Kerry's Iraq vote

oh jesus christ I didn't get to that part yet. fuck this guy then

what in tarnation