2020 Democratic presidential primary thread, pt 3: life is very long

i always try to emphasize that employer based healthcare is a force that stifles our economy far more than it helps it, because i th-ink it's true and also even hyper-entrepreneurial douchebags get it. (just kidding, you douchebags).

xp truly sorry to hear that difficulty djp.

If you can’t convince the majority of the electorate that switching to M4A is to their benefit, then all the “fighting” in the world isn’t going to do much.

Currently it’s not even possible to win the primary on this issue. Cue a post blaming it on big donors and the DNC.

― El Tomboto, Friday, April 3, 2020 1:39 PM (twelve minutes ago)

given that this pandemic is a real issue affecting actual people and not some abstraction or political science experiment, I genuinely hope that your response to your interpretation of the polling has been to work to change this. I hope your posts on this board are not reflective of the conversations you have with everyday people or the letters you write to your representatives. "the electorate" includes you. you are not a pundit, you're a person with a voice. when I am on conference call discussing how we are going to ration ventilators after we run out, or how we'll take care of people who can't get one; or when I'm thinking about the millions of people like my patients who are going to be hospitalized and stuck with a bill they can't afford; or when I think about how my patients, a shocking percentage of whom were already homeless, and how they are going to afford rent or feed themselves, my response is not to tell other people to stay in line, or to pray that the democratic nominee ascends to the throne with his platform completely intact; my response is: what the fuck. what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck. how are we going to help these people. the time to try things we would not normally try is now. the time to push our representatives and presumptive nominee is now. the time -- the same time REPUBLICANS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED A 2 TRILLION DOLLAR SPENDING BILL -- to take risks is now. the party is perfectly capable of putting forth half-measures without people like you and neera tanden caping for it. they don't need your help. the people who will be left behind do

I really wish everyone could see MN governor Tim Walz speaking right now, he's doing such an amazing job

I really wish everyone would recite the serenity prayer to themselves before posting in this stupid thread, myself included

naaah man the serenity prayer is for suckers when it comes to politics. that's the one lesson i learned from the conservative movement

Kevin otm

There are no moderate solutions to radical dysfunction.

"and the courage to always post about my opinions on the internet"

would be easier w/o the constant erring on the side of "cannot change"

i am in a 12-step program to help me stop reading these threads

my preferred mantra is Hillel's

https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.1.14?lang=bi

I'm not sure the mantra is "cannot change." For me it's: 1. Advocate better policies. 2. Get elected. 3. Attain power. 4. Use that power to improve lives.

Right now we are, all of us, stuck on step 1.

April 3:

What are we even doing here pic.twitter.com/PP5Izguefq

— j/o Biden (@lukeoneil47) April 3, 2020

xp not all of us^

the posts on this board where I clearly explain my personal political preferences are indicative of the conversations I have with actual people, including fellow voters. They are indicative of where I put my campaign donations. I’m sure I probably sound like a Republican to you but idgaf what you think because you don’t know me.

um I was referring to Joe Biden with my ^

anyway you don't sound like a Republican to me, you sound like a Democrat but so do most people in my real life and they're cool

I was responding to kevin’s rant

ah. that a quality post tho

picturing tombot in north face drip rn

Hillel's good.

altho my fave pirkei avot ref is "It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it"

xps

I like to think Hillel was talking about posting

Hilxorlel

https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/03/we-cannot-destroy-the-country-for-the-sake-of-new-york-city/

How stupid and parochial can you get? Doesn't that asshole understand that all the governors who are issuing stay-at-home orders across most of the nation have given zero thought to how that affects NYC? They are trying to save their own populations from a rapidly spreading pandemic of a disease that's about 10x more deadly than the seasonal flu and nobody has immunity for. They've been actively competing with NYC for scarce resources.

I have news for the @FDRLST. Ignoring the moral depravity of your soulless argument- almost all of the country's economic might is generated by cities- esp large cities like NYC, so on behalf of the Big Apple- Fuck You https://t.co/g3wl7I3rJM pic.twitter.com/EyEu1BYNBD

— Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌 (@RachelBitecofer) April 3, 2020

https://images.app.goo.gl/mbFP8hx4MgGMqrcw7

someone pays this sweaty-palmed dork to manufacture idiotic narratives and I’d like to know who it is

that's early 00s Yglesias level war thirstposting

David Marcus is the New York Correspondent for the Federalist where he has written since 2013. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, and City Journal. David is the former Artistic Director of Blue Box World, a Brooklyn based theater project, and also a former president of the Bat acting company at the Flea Theater.

When did the dem primary thread, where we fight with each other, become the general US politics thread? I blame Neanderthal.

I mean if we’re just going to carve out who we should and should not sacrifice on the altar of material security...

Xpost

Bat acting company

Bat acting... or bat eating?

When did the dem primary thread, where we fight with each other, become the general US politics thread? I blame Neanderthal.

― El Tomboto, Friday, April 3, 2020 8:04 PM bookmarkflaglink

I thought that was the thread I was in! ugh dammit

Morrissey’s Latest Is His Most
Morrissey knows what the notes mean now and he’s hitting them. This is no retro act; he is making some of his very best music.

Morrissey is deservedly canceled now and I am fine with that but... he "knows what the notes mean now"?

What was he doing before then? He sure participated in some decent records for someone who didn't know "what the notes mean."

What thread is this

The threads are all bleeding together maan, just like no one knows what time or day or month it is, maaaan

this, this is Biden's thread
we hate him so
we want him dead

Bat acting... or bat eating?

― system of a lockdown (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, April 3, 2020 5:09 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

threads are a flat circle

Morrissey’s live performances show he mostly knows where the notes are in a studio where the engineer can autotune him

Very true.

the quality i most admire in Sanders is his constant aggression https://t.co/nFYVO4y1iR

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) April 3, 2020

immediate response from a friend of a friend: "no thanks, I don't want socialized welfare, keep ur check"

the 'personal responsibility'/bootstraps arguments are going to look more and more hilariously unhinged in coming weeks.

For those upthread disingenuously claiming that Biden was insisting on putting people’s lives at risk so he could have a normal convention:

The former vice president and 2020 Democratic frontrunner told ABC’s “This Week” that his party's convention is “necessary,” but added it may not be possible to bring thousands of people to one location safely amid the pandemic.

“Well, we’re gonna have to do a convention,” Biden said. “We may have to do a virtual convention. I know I think we should be thinking about that right now.”

i know i think should be thinking about that right now, but gonna have to table it for future thinking

I'll have my people get in touch with your people to flesh that out.

For those upthread disingenuously claiming that Biden was insisting on putting people’s lives at risk so he could have a normal convention:

If you took me linking a quote from Biden saying that he didn't want to have a normal convention as me disingenuously saying that Biden said he wanted to have a normal convention, and other people saying nothing whatsoever about Biden wanting to have a normal convention as also disingenuously claiming that Biden wanted to have a normal convention, no wonder you got mad.

Its almost as if yr sarcastic misquoting obscured your point

Are we supposed to have “points”