Democratic (Party) Direction

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

and he spent something like, what, $600 million or so on his own primary campaign and made it sound like he would pitch in at least that much to defeat Trump in the general election?

I'm sure he'll spend a lot more, just wish he was doing it w/ his own pac or whatever and not through the party

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article243820362.html

of course

thinking about USPS, tax day, that two-year period of complete Democratic control of government we had a while ago, and how many small and easy things they didn't fix on account of none of them being normal people with normal problems

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) July 16, 2020

Democrats did not have a veto-proof majority until a few months in 2009, and Pareene knows that; but, yes, the USPS bill should've been repealed.

To be fair, I think everyone who supported Democrats in the 2006 & 2008 elections did it on the condition that Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson be given veto power over everything.

I guess I shouldn’t say everyone but I know I did.

— Mike Racioppo (@RacioppoMike) July 16, 2020

i also disagree with the idea that "none of them are normal people with normal problems"
that's just not true and that's not why they didn't pay attention to the USPS during this short period

being a multimillionaire is not normal

A veto-proof majority isn’t needed when you have a Democratic President.

I think the issue is cloture not veto

putting on kid gloves to deal with Justice Dems

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/18/jamaal-bowman-nancy-pelosi-statement/

she also made a point of endorsing ilhan omar

Legalize Marijuana

DNC Platform
vote: 106n, 50y, 3a
% support: 31/67 (-36)
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Polling – Pew 11/19
Public: 67/32 (+35)
Dems: 78/20 (+58) ←

Medicare for All

DNC Platform
vote: 36y, 125n, 3a
% support: 22/76 (-54)
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Polling – KFF 5/20
Public: 57/40 (+17)
Dems: 78/19 (+59) ←

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But at least the president will tweet 5 times a year.

"We are proud our party welcomes advocates who want to build on and strengthen the Affordable Care Act and those who support a Medicare for All approach."

Incisive