Democratic (Party) Direction

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. iirc

I'd ask (the Americans) if we are all on the same side

Trump wants to make AOC, Pressley, Tlaib and Omar the faces of the Democratic Party. The Democrats, whose current faces of the party are Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer and Biden, should say, thank you very much, Mr. President, for doing what we should've done ourselves.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) July 19, 2019

won't argue with that one, other than that I could definitely not pick Steny Hoyer out of a lineup of miserable white congressmen

Dems commissioning and then leaking that uneducated-whites-only polling to Axios to smear the Squad was some truly despicable shit, even before Trump used the polling to bash them.

as Perrin says, bad cop-bad cop

I believe it was Mark Russell who once rhymed "anyhoo" with "Steny who?"

This is good:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/no-more-nice-democrats/

Thats a very good piece!

hell yeah

icymi, P4reeene on the Decade From Hell:

"The story of American politics over the past decade is that of a political party on the cusp of enduring power and world-historical social reform, and how these once imaginable outcomes were methodically squandered."

https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency

Pelosi & Schumer’s tone is procedural updates, boring partisan jabs & patronizing ‘you dont understand how the game works’ head-patting. It’s devoid of any class politics or rage or urgency. 1/3rd of the economy evaporated overnight & it sounds like just another day at the office

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 22, 2020

How can I fp Adam H. Johnson? I'd like to 51 him asap.

If there's one thing missing from US politics atm, it is rage. Everyone is so polite these day that it's hard to get anyone on social media to even admit there are any problems with how things are, let alone work up a good frothing rage over those problems.

not Grancy & Schmucko

that dude is a friend of a friend and I remember pretending to be interested in his phone charging startup at a party years ago. this was long before he made a career out of being the dude who left angry comments on blog posts. he is exactly what you would expect irl.

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/02/11/how-annoying-bar-customers-with-dead.html

Contrary to the classic Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover where the world stops at the Hudson River, Brightbox’s recharging stations are found in nearby Connecticut and New Jersey but also in California and Florida.

Johnson thinks the concept of recharging a fading phone battery will work anywhere. He refers to New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman’s influential book to say, “The world is flat. There’s little difference between New York, Moscow and Madrid.”

iatee is also exactly what you wd expect irl, a schmuck who never addresses substance

tweets amount to 'substance' these days?

jesus

at least as much as some fucking messageboards full of amateur pundits

tell me how Pelosi & Schumer are worth more than a warm bucket of piss

i don't really think they'd be better at their jobs if they were angrier

it's good that this thread is back

Adam Johnson is cute.

saw the photo neeevvvveeerr miiiiiind

It’s very easy to determine how good Chuck and Nancy are at their jobs: just look at who gives them money and see if they’re delivering for those entities. I suspect they’re probably ok at it.

"anger" could be better framed as "sense of urgency"

at least as much as some fucking messageboards full of amateur pundits

idgi, morbs. you class ilx as a place where no one is intellectually capable of providing substance or addressing it, so you obviously don't expect substance here. But when someone doesn't provide substance, that makes him a schmuck? You're here, too. And not exactly brimming over with substance either.

if Shakey weren't apparently on a break we'd really get something going here

morbs is actually much nicer irl because nobody can do cartoonish internet anger in person

maybe just better behaved in person where he can get smacked

hahaha

imagine the most direct response to that.

correct.

I don't spend much time in the physical company of tedious gabby Democrats

nobody can do cartoonish internet anger in person

I can totally do this

I read Matt Stoller's newsletter and get a lot out of it but this was a massively disappointing 'take' from someone who's supposed to be - and often is - very smart:

1. I've been pretty aggressive about pointing out progressives got crushed, but I don't have a strategy going forward. That's because admitting defeat and figuring out what to do has to be a collective conversation. Here are some thoughts...

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 18, 2020

Stoller has been the sort of imbecile taken in by Josh Hawley.

I lost the will to live around point 7.

that... is a fucking mess

that's pretty stupid

I read as much of that as I could stand, but for someone who says he has no strategy and the direction of the left needs to be the result of a collective conversation, he makes one hell of a lot of assertions about strategy and most of them are hella simplistic and indistinguishable from neoliberalism. Not to mention the ones that are just wrong.

i like that it skipped from point 4 to 6. seemed illustrative of the entire argument: i live in a warped universe where there is no number 5

tuned out around 4 but kept scrolling and boy did it continue

it should be a crime for a 'tweet thread' to last more than two tweets

Who even are all these people!!! Posting things. Ffs

New board description

someone who's supposed to be - and often is - very smart

could've fooled me

I always think he's Matt Zoller Seitz

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/mike-bloomberg-to-donate-18-million-to-dnc-in-2020-election.html