2020 Democratic presidential primary

that's a good call

Lol yup. Waiting for him to descripe himself as Jupiterian or whatever

https://i.redd.it/7q7y9n7yr5m21.jpg

Not seeing it with Beto? Lost the attention momentum he built up before the midterms and now he's coming across as something of a clown. Media is (currently at least) more in the can for Kamala? Without that I don't see it

Beto's a superficial choice. There's a video of him skateboarding around a hamburger parking lot, the cameraman rooting for his boss man to go viral. I'm not sure how Obama era cynicism of our down home grass roots sleeves rolled friend of a good friend's spiral into drone war public policy rug sweep managed to just be forgotten but.... I guess America has always been a bit nostalgic for it's more artificial years.

I think I almost missed my opportunity to declare him "Blade-O'Rourke" before Trump inevitably has his A-Ha and tells whoever's local he's got a good one for him

I like the phrase “hamburger parking lot”

^^Underrated Little Feat Jam.

Beto was in the cDc!? https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/

has this been posted yet hahahahah

https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/beto-orourke-cites-minor-threat-and-fugazis-ian-mackaye-key-influence

had to check it wasn't the onion the hard times

someone ask Beto about GG Allin

someone sent me that earlier and I thought it was satire until just now

https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/02/lessons-from-fugazi-on-taking-down-donald-trump/4/

"13 Songs" has gone triple platinum? Plausible, I guess, and super-impressive if so. Is that US only? Because that's maybe twice the official numbers of, say, "Never Mind the Bollocks."

plz, no straight-edge presidents

I doubt it's triple platinum

https://books.google.com/books?id=5xAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=fugazi+13+songs+platinum&source=bl&ots=jlUyKp6ACI&sig=ACfU3U2wmKnpTnhGOqDzLUzY8IlqdPzsjQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj7rvg2oThAhXxna0KHQEjD0YQ6AEwG3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=fugazi%2013%20songs%20platinum&f=false

As of 2002 it had sold 150k, kinda doubt it's sold 2.85 million since.

"Today I've signed this no slam-dancing at shows bill to protect the scene's most vulnerable class."

and on the celebrity gf front

https://blindgossip.com/she-is-also-in-it-to-win-it/

fp

Rosario should run

aw, i thought rosario was still with eric andre
RIP supercool power couple

i did not realize cory booker had never been married

I just want to apologize to anyone who runs into me irl for the next week because this cDc thing is all I am going to care about talking about

like this for instance is every twitter joke about beto (including the calves one for obvious reasons) made actual flesh http://textfiles.com/groups/CDC/cDc-0121.txt

I still don’t know if Beto O’Rourke is Latinx or not

xpost lol I remember when Rachel Maddow ended a segment saying-- I was friends with Corey Booker in college. For the record, he's not gay.

xp he's not

where does he get off with this "Beto" shit

xpost Eh, I bet 13 Songs has sold more than 150K, though. Kill Taker was the first Fugazi to even have a UPC code, so no way was Soundscan tracking the earlier stuff.

For whatever reason, Beto has been his nickname since childhood.

It's annoying but like the 50th most objectionable thing about him imo

well we're covering all of them!

I am annoyed by articles describing him as handsome. That's probably in my top 20.

Psychedelic Warlord O'Rourke didn't fit on the campaign signs

Robert Francis rmde

I wonder if Beto got his name from Love and Rockets

normally I wouldn't endorse Dems trying on anything approaching Trump-style insult tactics but I really want at least one of the other candidates to call him "Robert Francis" at every opportunity

Hopefully it's Biden.

xpost Eh, I bet 13 Songs has sold more than 150K, though. Kill Taker was the first Fugazi to even have a UPC code, so no way was Soundscan tracking the earlier stuff.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, March 15, 2019 1:25 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also plenty of mom n pop stores never report to soundscan anyway - or CDs sold at shows or mail order

kinda curious to hear why he shouldn't call himself Beto if that's been his nickname since childhood

curious to hear why he shouldn't call himself Beto

people get caught up in such trivialities because they are so much easier to think about than complex substantive issues - and solutions to those substantive issues are so far out of the control of any one elected office holder that even performing one's due diligence on them often turns out to be a wasted effort.

he can call himself what he likes, doesn't stop it from being an irritant

obviously his support of local GOP candidates is a bigger problem (to cite one example)

For whatever reason, Beto has been his nickname since childhood.

He was in the Cult of the Dead Cow, which is cool (maybe this was posted already?).
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/

I kept wondering why people were posting about the Center for Disease Control

I know lots of people here and on lefty Twitter love to shit on the Pod Save guys but I think they're generally pretty good. However, I reserve the right to flip-flop on that position if Beto announces his candidacy and they go fully in the tank for him, as I fear they might.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, March 12, 2019 12:24 PM (three days ago)

Generally agree with this. Jon Favs and Dan seemed to take a measured, pragmatic view of his candidacy on the most recent pod, which is good. On the other hand, I just discovered that Lovett and Beto's wife were a year apart at Williams.

Crooked Media produced the Beto documentary.

That's right.

That triple platinum thing is completely bogus or a joke, right?

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