idk shit about tulsi gabbard but fwiw i came across this on fb, from a friend of a friend (who i otherwise do not know at all):
'Her father has led all of the anti-gay initiatives in Hawai’i politics for the last 20 years. Tulsi was right out in front spewing hate until she had her “epiphany” when she ran for Congress. I watched her on more than one occasion SCREAMING at LGBT folks and their allies in front of the Capital. She told me, to my face, in front of a crowd, that I and all my faggot friends (HER words) were going to burn in hell...and that it couldn’t happen soon enough. So that’s a first person account and that’s Tulsi Gabbard.'
― gbx, Saturday, 12 January 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
She is a legit crank
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 12 January 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link
okay okay, screenshotting your own tweets is kinda lame, so here's a thread by @pplswar listing all the unrelated political reasons for why Tulsi Gabbard sucks https://t.co/n2c1agyoa9— Sous la plage (@SousLaPlage) January 11, 2019
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Saturday, 12 January 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
Her badness has been pretty well documented for a while
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/tulsi-gabbard-president-sanders-democratic-party
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 January 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
Ok I know Tulsi isn't the one, but I also am willing to let the process play out. If this thread is a just a skeet shoot it will get tiresome fast.
OK, I really like and respect every single Democrat who's announced so far and all those who are likely to announce soon, and would support any of them in a Presidential election with fervent and unfeigned enthusiasm, except Tulsi Gabbard, who sucks.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 12 January 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
OTM
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Saturday, 12 January 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link
tulsi is creepy af. quite apart from what she says, her associations are a nightmare: she's been surrounded her whole life with nothing but the passionate worst. other (bad) dems talk clash-of-civilizations but david duke doesn't pop up to say they should be secretary of state.
whatever eccentric erected a billboard a block from my favorite hot dog place a decade ago to denounce "dirty doctors" in letters made of electric tape (story behind this is probably awful) now uses it mostly to denounce tulsi, sometimes for being in collusion w dirty doctors. wouldn't surprise me a bit.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 12 January 2019 09:43 (five years ago) link
Hopefully her higher profile and the magnifying glass on her awfulness might lead somebody to primary her out of her seat
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Saturday, 12 January 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
Julian Castro is in
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
Someone on FB posted Gabbard's announcement, saying "who is this???" and one of the most fervently right-wing people on my feed, a guy who spends his whole day jumping on peoples' comment threads and decrying their political correctness, immediately came in to praise her and say he would definitely vote for her.
Can't decide whether this is
a) Gabbard actually has appeal for affluent highly-educated right-wing people who think Trump is a fool but hate their suburban advanced-degree liberal surroundings more than anything elseb) Gabbard is the image of what right-wing people think of left-wing people as finding appealing and so RW people are inclined to cynically talk up her candidacy because they believe this will successfully split Democratic votes
Anyway, Julian Castro, great! I like Julian Castro a lot.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 12 January 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
I saw someone report that Harris is waiting to announce on MLK day, which is fucked up. Don't step on the man's day!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 12 January 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
synergy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
Gabbard is the image of what right-wing people think of left-wing people as finding appealing and so RW people are inclined to cynically talk up her candidacy because they believe this will successfully split Democratic votes
it's that one
― Dan I., Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
it's kind of the stopped clock situation and how some leftists could at least appreciate Ron Paul's anti-imperialsim and vigorous denunciation of the Iraq invasion. but with Tulsi and conservatives it's the racism & homophobia
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
Harris is waiting to announce on MLK day
She just wants to claim his aura by standing in it, which is totally a politician thing to do, because it is wholly symbolic and without substance, yet elections regularly are decided by baseless symbolism and appeals to emotion and they lean on that lever as hard as they can.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
i don't see any problem with harris announcing on MLK day. it's symbolic, and for good reason. she is in a position to announce her candidacy as one of the main contenders for the president of the united states in no small part because of the work that King accomplished. she's paying respect to that while also looking forward to the work that still remains to be done.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
So, who’s announcing on Valentines Day?
― suzy, Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
O'Malley obv
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
someone who wants to lose the Valentines Day Blows vote
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
KM otm
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
It's like if someone took a bunch of random warmed over liberal talking points from the 1990s and put them in a humanoid. https://t.co/CNt4HnT9GY— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 12, 2019
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
"Today, we live in a world in which brainpower is the new currency of success." #Julian2020— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) January 12, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
lol that’s fuckin nonsense
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:37 (five years ago) link
my god
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Saturday, 12 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
Hopefully her higher profile and the magnifying glass on her awfulness might lead somebody to primary her out of her seat― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Saturday, January 12, 2019 4:56 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Saturday, January 12, 2019 4:56 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
All my friends here on Oahu are hoping so too.
― davey, Saturday, 12 January 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
I’m sure castro is a nice guy but how can he think that kind if campaign could ever prevail.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 12 January 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
campaigning for veep? polishing his MOR credentials for some future gov/sen race? i have no idea.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 January 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
Castro is a Clintonite, not interested
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 January 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
Fuck. Well okay fair enough. Team Castro might as well close up campaign headquarters right now if they can’t get you on board
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Sunday, 13 January 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
If Julián Castro, as part of his campaign to become President of the United States, wants to issue uninspired, uninspiring, and semi-nonsensical tweets that sound like posters for employee break rooms written to mimic fortune cookie wisdom, then I for one am content to let him do so as often as he likes., for as long as he likes. Where's the harm in it? If he wants to sit in a corner and twiddle his lips, that's his call, too.
I don't currently see my role as criticizing his choices, unless or until those choices are likely to affect me or those I care about.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 13 January 2019 04:40 (five years ago) link
With a name like that, dude won't ever be elected president of the united states.
― pplains, Sunday, 13 January 2019 05:16 (five years ago) link
(and of course, I mean "Julian".)
Good review https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/kamala-harris-truths-we-hold-review/579430/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 13 January 2019 05:57 (five years ago) link
wild that she isn't already pretending she was never a prosecutor tbqh
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, 13 January 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link
― pplains, Saturday, January 12, 2007 11:16 PM (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 13 January 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
yeah who could ever become president with a name like "barack hussein obama"
― harvey wall/barrier (voodoo chili), Sunday, 13 January 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
Intercept gonna Intercept
Jesus Fucking Christ ya'll. Wallace Burgerman and the Intercept are trying to spin Beto as anti-union over him opposing A POLICE UNION when he was on a city council.How the can you pretend this kind of shameless shit in't about smearing the NotBernie? https://t.co/t2pZ4e2ldV— Custodial Weedle (@weedlewobble) January 13, 2019
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 13 January 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
From the writer of “The Liberal Case for Trump” no less.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Sunday, 13 January 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
Wtf?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 13 January 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
I can literally not think of a more divisive and stupid thing for TheIntercept to do than to attack a politician for going after Police Unions. What on earth are they thinking?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
Do reflexive contrarians ever have to think?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
Chasing clicks. It's not complicated
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
Police "unions" aren't unions just to reiterate an obvious point
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
How so? Police unions participate in collective bargaining. Maybe you meant they are simply unions like, say, electrical workers or auto workers.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 13 January 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
So do professional associations of managers in some places. Call them guilds or fraternal organizations or whatever. I suppose I am speaking from a purist left-unionist position that doesn't believe in the legitimacy of such organizations being considered part of the labour movement of trades unions since they are dedicated to eroding the rights of the working class.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
redefining the word 'union' to only include unions you like doesn't really accomplish much
― iatee, Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
The public sector is a completely different situation. From my experience these last six years on City Council, I do not think it is in the community’s best interests, certainly not in the taxpayers’ best interests, to have collective bargaining by the police and firefighters.
This is a pretty shitty position.
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Jim's stance is pretty standard among leftists (myself included)
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
there's a difference between having a stance on police unions such as 'they are bad' and having a stance on whether words should have clear meanings so that we can actually talk to each other
― iatee, Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
Alex Press has a good overview on this
https://alexnpress.com/2017/08/08/left-police-unions-labor-movement-uaw-racism-teamsters/
― resident hack (Simon H.), Sunday, 13 January 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link