2020 Democratic presidential primary

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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?

Amy Klobuchar defends her staff treatment, says toughness needed when dealing with Putin https://t.co/rOu32SwJzx pic.twitter.com/FHdlKjkNC8

— CNN (@CNN) March 15, 2019

Accurate sales figures are really hard to come by but e.g. the numbers I've seen for Sonic Youth's Dirty are in the neighbourhood of 400k. Anyway, "triple platinum" is a RIAA certification so should be easily verifiable.

xpost yes, abusing underlings is always a sign of confidence and strength

her staff are in fact all Putin relatives

lol

‘I choose not to’ — @BetoORourke , when asked if he could share fundraising figures pic.twitter.com/AkJqA92rJC

— David Siders (@davidsiders) March 15, 2019

very humble of him not to share these numbers, courageous even

Have we talked about the fact that according to a recent NYT article, Beto was roomies with a former(?) ilxor?

an old ilxor noize dude was in that nyt article as a prior roommate. I would vote for the noize dude over beto.

― Yerac, Thursday, 28 February 2019 02:11 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Beto is kind of a Brooklyn roommate archetype, now that I think about it.

Same.

xp!

OKAY, so the Fugazi 3 million thing is probably this quote being misinterpreted. In this interview Ian says Repeater sold around 500K, the entire Fugazi catalog cumulatively sold between 2 and 3 million. That sounds very reasonable

On Dischord’s best-selling records:

If you took the first Minor Threat single—we put the two singles on one 12-inch. You include that, and you include the cassette version of that and then you include the discography CD, which is all of the songs—if you add all those up, it’s just shy of a million, or maybe it’s over a million copies now. I don’t know. It’s a lot.

Fugazi, on the other hand, we had I don’t know how many records, eight or nine albums. And I think Repeater, probably the first one and Repeater were close to 500,000, maybe over, I don’t know. I don’t actually really keep too close a count. But cumulatively, we sold over 2 or 3 million records now.

however, given that it was independent and Ian owned Dischord, the amount of money he'd see from 500K would probably be more than a major label act would see for 5 million after they were done getting fucked by the label etc

Beto: America's Roommate

"I choose not to"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener

he preferred not to use "prefer"

but he still has made a choice!

i know someone who played music with Beto and knew him when he was younger; she's super progressive and was a big proponent of his Senate run (though she lives in NYC now). But I haven't heard what she thinks about his presidential run or anything since the criticism that he was too supportive of Republicans in TX gained traction.

honoring his Rush forebears