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

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”

that's how u win b-ball games

Instead of a point system, I apply a merits & demerits system. Draw five demerits and you get detention.

you mess with the bull, you get the horns

do you think operating less than a third of the usual number of polling places is going to a) increase or b) decrease the number of voters at each Wisconsin location, Shakey?

Are we supposed to have “points”

Why are you posting if you aren’t attempting to express a point of view?

I'll never know why I'm posting honestly

but surely a "point of view" is different than a "point [of argument]"?

I'll never know why I'm posting honestly

New board description.

All the more reason not to take many of you seriously.

Georgia has expanded absentee voting to cover all registered voters, postponed their primary from march 24th to May 19th, and mailed out ballot forms so people don't have to go into public and interact with other humans.

Except that the return envelopes do not have postage included.

Oregon runs elections exclusively as vote-by-mail and the legislature is cheap enough it doesn't provide return postage. It does designate secure drop-off sites at places like public libraries and city halls, where ballots are collected without voters posting them.

Oregon went to free postage in 2019 (Washington did in 2018, and also has public ballot drop-boxes, which are fun).

California also has free postage

When I moved back to Michigan after voting by mail in Washington for 11 years I was all indignant at how primitive it felt to have to go out and vote and was smugly certain that the voter turnout rate in WA had to be much higher - but they’re basically the same, usually within a single percentage point.

I don’t know if this means MI residents make more effort to turn out in spite of the hassles and WA residents are comparatively lazier, how much this has to do with MI being much more of a swing state while WA statewide races were basically a foregone conclusion, etc. In 2018 MI voted for a bunch of measures increase ballot access like same day registration and no questions asked absentee ballots so I’m curious if this will change the numbers.

trying to resist being fatalistic and also well aware of how utterly uncertain everything is right now, but still I'm really having to force myself not to obsess over the likelihood that November elections are going to be thoroughly fucked due to the virus. the right-wing machine has been plenty emboldened to try and discourage/scare certain communities away from the polls even when they had to manufacture reasons for fear, now that there is a genuine one I can't even start to wrap my head around where things may go.

Not emboldened enough to scare non-white voters this primary cycle, though.

I'm not worried about their "scaring" anyone way so much as leveraging the crisis to ram poll closures and other voter suppression moves through the courts

^^ that's better

yep, going to be wild as hell watching Fox et al concern troll over safe social distancing in uh certain very specific states/ cities right around the time of the election

and they know there's no "taking to the streets"

"go ahead, comment away!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rxWPEdYCnI

in lieu of actual protest, 8pm open-window Doobies sing-along

"What a Fool Believes"

A decent post-mortem thread:

1: Bernie Sanders would’ve been a better nominee than Joe Biden.

2: Bernie Sanders is not going to be the nominee.

3: Given (2) people who believe (1) should try to understand what went wrong.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 5, 2020

Who you think most likely for Biden's running mate?

Someone not male and not white.

Klob, Kamala, some Governor nobody’s thinking about in that order

In normal times I still don't think Harris would want the job but it's hard to imagine a VP ever being more likely to get the promotion.