2020 Democratic presidential primary

I like both

The Internationale goes better with booze

Has some cheeky brewery made an Internation-Ale yet?

If not, they should

should be these guys, obviously - https://www.partizanbrewing.co.uk/

Yeah, those cats could also be trusted to nail the Socialist Realism Soviet style art on the label. A few backwards letters, a muscular farmworker scathing through a sheaf of golden grain....

I know technically the Cold War was still going on but I don’t think visiting Russia was considered weird or anything in 1988

it was a campaign issue in 1992. AIM still has a page up about it:

https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/bill-clintons-soviet-connection/

Half measures. A school principal. It won't work if you don't run against what got us here. https://t.co/h5gl7AcSzV

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 27, 2019

This is the “let’s remember who we are as Americans” crap that did so well last time. Good luck.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 27, 2019

Hope the new Lion King film addresses the massive plot hole left over from the first film: how exactly did all the animals learn to speak English?

— Grover Cleveland (@GroverCleveland) November 27, 2018

lol

more on the Harris "truancy-as-crime" angle

Kamala Harris at an event hosted by the Commonwealth Club in 2010, explaining her decision as San Francisco DA to get tough on truancy.

Critics of truancy crackdowns say such efforts unfairly target poor parents and children without actually helping students. pic.twitter.com/GKkDpayxuv

— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) January 28, 2019

I know technically the Cold War was still going on but I don’t think visiting Russia was considered weird or anything in 1988

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, January 28, 2019 9:56 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oddly enough reagan visited the soviet union that year and told a reporter he didn't consider it an "evil empire" anymore.

It wasn't remotely weird. I was on a public high school field trip there in 1986, my sophomore year.

I mean I was sent back with a detailed plan for undermining our kapitalisticheskiy system but whatever

Arvid and Dennis from the high school sitcom “Head of the Class” memorably tried to smuggle “blue jeans and Beatles tapes” into the country at the beginning of a 3 episode arc shot in and around Moscow

Wait, so she preferred give low-level offenders jobs instead of jail time? How is that anything but extremely progressive? https://t.co/dnVzGkKQhF

— Gritty is a war criminal (@agraybee) January 28, 2019

man Grover Cleveland is as boring a Tweeter as he was a president.

his first tweet is usually good, but when someone interjects he always returns with a surprisingly weak comeback.

xxp "the charging and convicting" for having some weed thing, probably

That’s the law, a DA can’t just let people off the hook because it seems unfair, the best they could do is go for productive, non-prison-related solutions.

— Gritty is a war criminal (@agraybee) January 28, 2019

not in San Francisco: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2006/nov/24/marijuana_san_francisco_supervis

xp

And the fact that she considered it a priority to keep mothers out of jail and with their children seems like something she should put into her stump speech?

— Gritty is a war criminal (@agraybee) January 28, 2019

valorizing her for not jailing first time drug offenders is peak liberalism

She should have changed the laws

The solution to "being a DA means you have to do shitty things" seems to be "don't be a DA in the first place."

She should have changed the laws

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, January 28, 2019 3:21 PM (thirty-six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im not really au fait with the american justice system but in the legal system i am familiar with the equivalent to a DA has discretion as to whether they want to bring charges or not

Wait are we still saying “Liberal Case for Trump” guy’s thread is good and honest or did we shift to “Wellll I don’t think DA’s should exist anyway, man”?

That’s the law, a DA can’t just let people off the hook because it seems unfair

they absolutely can, wtf

Wait are we still saying “Liberal Case for Trump” guy’s thread is good and honest or did we shift to “Wellll I don’t think DA’s should exist anyway, man”?

pretty sure we're talking about your version of Morbs's Dennis Perrin tweets

here's a contemporaneous article from the SF Weekly about Harris' conviction rate as DA being *too low* because the majority of her convictions were actually from plea deals and not from cases that went to trial: https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/a-lack-of-conviction/Content?oid=2177022&showFullText=true

make of that what you will, I find most of this conversation tiresome and irrelevant. Anyone that thinks she wants to gain the presidency in order to incarcerate as many poor non-white people as possible is living in a weird echo chamber.

I don't think anyone thinks that

Wait are we still saying “Liberal Case for Trump” guy’s thread is good and honest or did we shift to “Wellll I don’t think DA’s should exist anyway, man”?

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, January 28, 2019 3:25 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you brought this into the thread. the counter case that you've presented with one of your tweets by centrist dolts with 100 followers that you love to paste here which is actually making the argument "making first time non-violent drug offenders do a work program or go to jail is a great thing to have done and Harris should use this in a stump speech" is just a bit counterintuitive and reaching?

The accounts with the most followers are the best

it's more just that they're nobodies with bad opinions. like dennis perrin

bad takes from nobodies are endogenous to this forum, there's no need to import them from social media

Maybe people that realized only just last week (instead of at least two years ago) that Greenwald is bad were really wrong about some other really big stuff? Maybe being one of those people should mean “I take a seat for 6 months/1 year”?

stop posting

Maybe people that realized only just last week (instead of at least two years ago) that Greenwald is bad were really wrong about some other really big stuff? Maybe being one of those people should mean “I take a seat for 6 months/1 year”?

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Monday, January 28, 2019 3:35 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who are these people?

Mischievous types. Troublemakers.

ne'er-do-wells

Oooh the worst.

corner boys and guttersnipes

haven't we been over the fact that there are lots of ways to be a "progressive DA"

progressive displays of affection <3

my da's well progressive

Actual lol xp

DAs do have great discretion when it comes to what sorts of things to prioritize or prosecute at all. these are the sorts of nuances one might miss when one apparently looks to weird twitterers with no known expertise in order to form his positions

harris's defense of the policy in those clips is striking -- definitely the sort of attitude I would want someone to take when they are, as harris notes, justifying a policy I happened to support that required they burn a good amount of their own political capital. and the policy of offering state services to parents whose children are missing school seems like the sort of thing that we should like. I'd be interested in reading a serious review of the law's effects and how many prosecutions actually came out of it (and who tended to be prosecuted) before passing final judgment

Xpost not really. Maybe missed it. There was once a tweet posted that had a list of “progressive prosecutors” but when you looked at the thread there was a lot of contention and back and forth whether a few of the names could be called as such

his first tweet is usually good, but when someone interjects he always returns with a surprisingly weak comeback.
― omar little, Monday, January 28, 2019 6:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahahaha