hoooo boy
― Simon H., Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
A Twitter thread from Joy Reid:
A small note - that’s actually a big one - on the subject of “rigging...”— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 3, 2017
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
Mastery of trivia in the face of apocalypse is something, for sure
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
brazile is producing some...interesting quotes, if legit
This is such grandiloquent nonsense. The idea that Brazile had it in her power to do this but had mercy on Clinton’s followers. My god. pic.twitter.com/mBY8rD7y4i— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 4, 2017
― k3vin k., Sunday, 5 November 2017 07:35 (six years ago) link
this is definitely not a sign of a Party in terminal crisis https://t.co/PychLyplaJ— LG (@TradWifeWineMom) November 5, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 November 2017 09:25 (six years ago) link
Impossible to even follow that thread linked in there
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 5 November 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
how's the terminal crisis going
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 05:56 (six years ago) link
like this?
Favorable views of the Democratic Party have dropped to their lowest mark in more than a quarter century of polling, according to new numbers from a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Only 37% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Democrats, down from 44% in March of this year....
Overall, 36% of registered voters who identify as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents say they are extremely or very enthusiastic about voting next year, down from 44% who said so in September. That puts Democratic enthusiasm on par with that of Republicans, which stands at 37%.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/07/politics/cnn-poll-republicans-democrats-taxes/index.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
I read it too. What a difference 24 hours makes. I may wake up and wanna watch Lifeboat again.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
you mean those two lesser-evil assholes that won last night make it all bed-der? Shirley, you can't be serious...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
The downballot victories are more significant
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
possibly so. let's see if they can build on it. start by locking Schumer and Emanuel in a closet.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
Having a white-hot hatred of the opposition tends to occlude one's vision into the faults of your erstwhile allies. But rationally speaking a lesser evil is better than a greater evil. No one calls a broken toe "good", but almost everyone will choose it over a broken neck as the "better" option.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Schumer is doing much better than i expected as Min Leader imo
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
in the last hour I've learned Donna Brazile is appearing on Tucker Carlson's show and she had a nice chat with Sheriff Clarke. My guess is she'll be replacing Omarosa by week's end.
seriously, every lefty who tried to welcome her to the flock because she put the HRC campaign on blast looks like a straight up clown right now.
― evol j, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
xpost Yeah, he's kept the party united as an opposition party, especially when literally just one Dem defector could have made a big difference.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
Can you believe all these libs supporting republicans who criticize trump? Disgusting Donna Brazile welcome to the DSA— Quinoa🖕Appropriator (@MattAlwaysWrong) November 5, 2017
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
ah thx, i forgot to post these. xxp
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/dem-pundits-spent-yesterday-lying-about-dnc-primary-rigging-document-d60019c59c3e
https://theintercept.com/2017/11/05/four-viral-claims-spread-by-journalists-on-twitter-in-the-last-week-alone-that-are-false/
(No balanced lefty is going to 'welcome' a lifelong political hack that quickly, regardless of the conents of her book.)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
Johnstone is a Seth Rich truther who also wrote a medium piece about how that left should ally with the alt-right.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
sorry, i don't keep up
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
The Greenwald piece doesn’t really prove falsehoods just kind of claims it repeatedly.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
we know
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
i mean like Dem employees like Nerdstrom
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
lol i'm sposed to know every politics writer on the interwebz OOOH GOTCHA GOTCHA
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
greenwald can gtfo until he stops being a useful idiot for tucker carlson.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
In NYC, ran into @donnabrazile and talked about her book. Even though our political views are polar opposite, we had a great conversation. Complimented her on her courage to out the DNC and #CrookedHillary. Say what you want, more Dems should tell the truth. pic.twitter.com/IBzP6Ma9jR— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) November 8, 2017
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Damn
― flappy bird, Thursday, 9 November 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
clarke's hats are getting worse
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 9 November 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
love those photoshops where people make his hat gigantic and seat partway down his face
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 9 November 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
lol
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/resort-tycoon-says-hes-ordered-dem-leaders-to-adopt-pro-billionaire-platform-911c92a6116b
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 9 November 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
In the past few weeks, I've visited with three amazing women running as first-time candidates for Congress in largely rural districts. I have things to say about the Democratic Party— Pinboard (@Pinboard) November 10, 2017
― j., Friday, 10 November 2017 05:09 (six years ago) link
I mean it never fails pic.twitter.com/ZUdzgCLuGO— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 11, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 November 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
The trick is to move further left on issues that are broadly popular and not emphasize the issues that only appeal to a tiny niche. You can deal with the niche issues once you are in office and no one in the broad public will notice or care, while those in the tiny niche will be made happy and remember the favor.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 November 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
That is way too sensible
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 12 November 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
outside of finance, there is no profession where people who have never won anything get to scold others on how to win more than dem political "strategist"— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 11, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
Related to that Molly Ball article I think we linked to upthread about the Third Way group going on safari, she was interviewed about this on Daniel Denvir’s show last week:
https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/28772955/the-hollow-center-with-molly-ball-and-eric-levitz/
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
Democratic Party's elevator pitch to millennials?"Capitalism 2.0." - @MarkWarner"We look like you." - @amyklobuchar#WSJCEOCouncil— Josh Jamerson (@joshjame) November 14, 2017
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
lmao I came here to post that
― Simon H., Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
"Means-testing on fleek.""Endless drone warfare, but gender fluid.""Airbnb for the prison-industrial complex.""Swipe right-to-work."— Andrew Moreturkey (@andrewmochulsky) November 14, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
The idea of a an "elevator pitch" containing anything of genuine political value is absurd to begin with. It's just "I like Ike" brought into the 21st century.
otoh, that goddamn "Contract with America" that Newt cooked up in 1996 probably did reach a lot of people who liked what it said and voted republican as a result. I sometimes wonder why that concept got booted to the curb in later elections. It had promise as a way to define the party political agenda and its identity, all in ten or so simple bullet points. Probably its because Newt bullied the entire House republican caucus to sign the thing and that feat has been impossible to replicate.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
that joke sucks kingfish
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Oh I dunno, I think elevator pitches(or slogans in this case) containing inherent, inspirational values are useful.
“Change you can believe in” and “For the many, not the few” both work.
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
Possibly, but I liked “Swipe right-to-work”
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
"Hope & Change" and "Make America Great Again" worked pretty well
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
If by working pretty well, you mean they created an emotional attraction on the art of some voters toward the candidate, I guess that could be seen as having 'political value'. But the sort of value I had in mind was more in terms of indicating the policies the candidate or party would pursue.
As far as setting policy direction, Hope & Change could just as easily apply to Trump starting a war with North Korea. It's a change. And we'd all be hoping like mad once it started. Making America Great Again could as easily promote returning to the income tax rates of 1960.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
The manifesto thingy worked pretty well for Labour across the pond, but I guess over here nobody gives a shit about party platforms
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
How Education Reform Ate the Democratic Party
"So now, as America ponders the mounting economic disequlibriums that gave rise to the Trump insurgency, concerned plutocrats can all agree on one key article of faith: what is holding back the poor and minority children who figure so prominently in the glossy brochures of charter school advocates is not the legacy of racist housing policy or mass incarceration or a tax system that hoovers up an ever growing share of income into the pockets of the wealthy, but schoolteachers and their unions....
"The Clintons were early adopters; tough talk against Arkansas’ teachers, then among the poorest paid in the country, was a centerpiece of Bill’s second stint as Governor of Arkansas. As Hillary biographer Carl Bernstein recounts, the Arkansas State Teachers Association became the villain that cemented the couple’s hold on the Governor’s mansion—the center of their Dick Morris-inspired “permanent campaign.” The civil rights language in which the Democratic anti-union brigade cloaks itself today was then nowhere to be heard, however. And little wonder: Civil rights groups fiercely opposed the most controversial feature of the Clintons’ reform agenda—competency tests for teachers—on the grounds that Black teachers, many of whom had attended financially starved Black colleges, would disproportionately bear their brunt."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/ed-reform-ate-the-democrats-berkshire
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
thanks, Ted!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
Democrats in Congress aren't expected to live up to the party platform so potential Democratic voters don't give a shit about it.
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 17 November 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
Scaling back superdelegates... somewhere, gabbneb weeps.
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/dnc-unity-reform-commission-takes-a-whack-at-superdelegates/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 December 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link