2020 Democratic presidential primary

i thought that too, but then i read:

The video, in which Sarsour is identified as a “Civil Rights Activist, 2020 Bernie Surrogate,” was tweeted by the campaign.

maybe this is just the way this word is used now

It’s certainly not a bigger deal than running for the Dem nomination with Sirota as your lead speechwriter.

which, does anyone still care about this?

clearly!

This long-ass article about Warren's fights with the Obama administration is interesting and worth reading.

I see tweets about Sirota now and then, mostly because Sirota is an idiot who can't stop saying and doing idiotic things

I have no idea who Sirota is

neither does America

Literally the only thing I remember about him was the controversy over him writing pro Bernie material when he had already gotten the speechwriter gig, which turned out to be bullshit.

How did that turn out to be bullshit?

Here's a statement from the Guardian calling upon The Atlantic to correct the story by @IsaacDovere regarding the work hats of David Sirota: pic.twitter.com/RSwL8766hD

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) March 19, 2019

and as Morbs said I suspect about 0.001% of Americans even know who he is anyway

Yeah, there's a disagreement on the length of the time he was 'informally advising', apparently Dovere writes 'months' and the Sanders campaign claims it was only 'a month'. Sirota stayed an asshole all the way?

Like, that's not a 'bullshit' article, that's a disagreement about details. And Sirota wrote his last article for Capital and Main in february.

Ok fair enough, apparently the implication was meant to be that Sirota was writing speeches for Sanders back in December, which was wrong. It was never an implication I took from the original article, though. I just thought it was shitty of Sanders to hire an idiot like Sirota.

Anyway, here's another helpful reminder on another subjecf

8 of 10 Sanders supporters would be enthusiastic of Warren becomes the nominee.

8 of 10 Warren supporters said the same about Bernie.

The other 2 in 10 spend all day in my mentions. https://t.co/XnIMymCoI3 pic.twitter.com/EHbFkiaNaa

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) September 8, 2019

I see tweets about Sirota now and then, mostly because Sirota is an idiot who can't stop saying and doing idiotic things

it's clear that most of us don't know what Sirota's faults are. Can you summarize plz

idiot/asshole or not, Sanders' speeches have been better this cycle

oh hey it's here, though it's uncharacteristically light on details

https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/health-care

Elizabeth supports Medicare for All, which would provide all Americans with a public health care program. Medicare for All is the best way to give every single person in this country a guarantee of high-quality health care. Everybody is covered. Nobody goes broke because of a medical bill. No more fighting with insurance companies.

I wish she would just tell us if she supports M4A

She supports universal injections of capitalism into your bones.

Sirota in 2012: Romney or Obama and the Supreme Court: Does it even matter? A Romney presidency isn't an automatic judicial disaster. Not if Democrats get principled and oppose his nominees https://www.salon.com/2012/11/01/romney_or_obama_and_the_supreme_court_does_it_even_matter Also, just check his twitter feed. It's whine whine whine whine whine.

This David Simon thread is pretty fun as well (though sketchy on the timeline)

Thread: A few months ago, I cited a particularly skewed take on another Democratic candidate by this fellow David Sirota, called him on his consistent habit of such, and blocked him as a faux journalist and purveyor of hype. I was then treated to foam-flecked herd....

— David Simon (@AoDespair) March 19, 2019

journalism- in activism you were born, and the rest is mostly posing or betrayal

(i sorta get the difference between factual, analytic, and persuasive writing a little. it's intentional shitpost, but it's an argument i keep in mind).

excellent work, fred

david simon is a one hot album every ten year average guy

How can you possibly think that? What's his second hot album?

The Wire

Ok, fair point, but that ended 11 years ago?

But it lives on in our, etc.

heard good things about the deuce, which i haven't watched

None of The Deuce's good qualities (and there aren't many to begin with) can overcome the fact that it stars James Franco.

Also, just check his twitter feed. It's whine whine whine whine whine.

― Frederik B,

xp

AND....James Franco!

Treme and Generation Kill were also great

unperson not liking it is a good sign, i'll check it out

it seems, from afar and not paying a lot of attention, that this is essentially joe biden's candidacy. then warren's - who has most of the clinton coalition that isn't with biden already - if he becomes too embarrassing - how far he has to go for that to happen seems unsure. i would put any amount of money on this.

it will be "bernie's fault" if either of those lose to trump (biden probably would).

Treme is also Bernie's fault

Treme is George W. Bush's fault.

David Simon is a great TV writer and one of the most insufferable resistance libs alive

Lol

Sirota ok, but David Simon insufferable?

He is bad.

kinda like hmmmm let's see...

you mean like a guy who takes my joking Jay-Z reference literally and then argues with it because actually that was 11 years ago?

ONE HOT ALBUM EVERY TEN YEAR AVERAGE: THREE PINNOCHIOS

that's so laaaaaaaaaaaaame

I was saying it's unfair because his average is lower than that. It was a joke, man alive, jeez calm down and stop taking things so seriously, wtf?

I've never really understood what was meant to be Nas' second hot album, though.

one was ...ehhhh the other was illmatic

that's a one (1) hot album every ten year average