2020 Democratic presidential primary

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

Yeah i agree with that. From the info provided i have no idea what the effects of this program were and what the alternative to it was.

oh shit that was too deep for me, respect to omar

I agreed with kevin. I can’t keep up with you guys

I would think if someone were concerned about her past as a prosecutor it would be framed as say “What does she plan to do as president wrt the lack of accountability following police shootings of unarmed black men. Yes I hope someone asks her to address that thing that will matter in the future ” instead of “gotcha” stuff from the past meant to be “disqualifying” that often hasn’t held up to scrutiny.

god your sentences are long

Little more bart less lisa nerdstrom.

🛹🤘

I'm concerned that she was a prosecutor, full stop. All else being equal I'd rather vote for a non-prosecutor. My current mayor was a US Attorney and she sucks!

like kamala amirite xxp

who are these people?

Well, gabbneb has already started edging toward Russian plant fanfiction, so...

Then-District Attorney Harris formed a partnership with the [San Francisco] school district to inform parents about their legal duty to ensure that their children attended school, provide parents of chronically truant students with wrap-around services and school-based mediation, and prosecute parents in the most severe cases where other interventions did not work. The initiative also served as a model for SB 1317 (Leno), which defined "chronic truancy" for the first time under state law and established the initiative's model of combining meaningul services with smart sanctions in the California Penal Code. The bill was sponsored by then-District Attorney Harris and enacted into law in 2010.

I would guess that prosecution/conviction numbers are quite low but having trouble finding hard data, since there's already so much noise/crap in any search results related to Harris

many xps

neither here nor there, but I liked her speech yesterday

When did being more law and order require anyone to burn political capital before the last 18 months of Democratic politics?

Okay that’s honest at least and I think that’s more direct distillation/represents where other people here are actually at with this

“I'm concerned that she was a prosecutor, full stop. All else being equal I'd rather vote for a non-prosecutor. My current mayor was a US Attorney and she sucks!”
― Norm’s Superego (silby),

I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, lol. she says it was controversial in the bay area and it's not hard to imagine that being the case xp

Schultz: “Mike Bloomberg has built a great business, was a great mayor, but I don’t agree with his conclusion” that running as a 3rd party candidate helps Trump

— g a b y (@gabydvj) January 29, 2019

well, yeah

I look forward to this guy crashing and burning spectacularly

is he gabbneb?

looking fwd to seeing what happens to this clown's nascent campaign when his company's stock plummets during boycott

off to a roaring start

About 10 minutes until Howard Schultz speaks. A lot of people here have expressed admiration for Schultz, and there are people in the back standing to see the talk.

Two people spotted: Mic co-founders Chris Altchek and Jake Horowitz. pic.twitter.com/ThqQ60tdaM

— maxwell (@maxwellstrachan) January 28, 2019

Nerdstrom is not gabbneb, he was posting before gabbneb was banned

i know that. i was talking about howard schultz.

Seconds into Howard Schultz’s remarks here at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, a heckler yells: “Don’t help elect Trump. You egotistical billionaire asshole.”

— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) January 29, 2019

Tucker Carlson endorses Warren:
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/26/salon-interview-tucker-carlson-bashes-capitalism-says-he-might-vote-for-elizabeth-warren/

"I wrote a whole book on this and I want our economy to support parents on one income, families on one income, not so we can hire some person from the Third World to work at minimum wage and raise your kids, but so that you can have an intact family. You can live in a way that we all know is better."

cool, woke white supremacy!!

this is a bannon position. he calls himself an "economic nationalist" and, in mixed company, tries to downplay the xenophobic aspects of his ideology

Seconds into Howard Schultz’s remarks here at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, a heckler yells: “Don’t help elect Trump. You egotistical billionaire asshole.”
— Steve Peoples (@sppeoples) January 29, 2019

god i dream of saying shit like this to our overlords. good show, heckler.

my congressperson never shows his face in public, but if he did, and i encountered him, i would have to choose between one of a few dozen vicious put-downs that i've practiced (in my mind) while trying to fall asleep. i hope he is patient.

lol

a few weeks ago i mind-owned trump so hard in front of a fake camera, totally improvised, that i thought it would go viral if real

trump-based psychodramas are best owns ime

the one i keep returning to is simplicity itself: "you are garbage"

not proud but my fantasy own is a wordless flurry of left and right crosses to all parts of his face

read that post to the tune of "mama said knock you out"

i'm kinda like shaft so you can say I'm shafting

at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, a heckler yells

god bless new yorkers

I feel like 60% of the reason they keep B&Ns open in manhattan is for heckling people.

I almost went to see alan dershowitz at union square last fall for the heckling action

I'm not sure what Fox are floating with Tucker but they are definitely floating something (or he is floating it himself), the warren thing, agreeing with AOC, the feud with Shapiro. I don't know indicative it is of changing times but there's definitely something there

This is not an original thought, but I think Tucker is already anticipating post-Trump conservative talking points.