Democratic (Party) Direction

surfin' the mainstream straight into the apocalypse

gurl, damn that's some epic shade more tea plz beyonce.gif

Jayapal for speaker ASAP por favor

democratic (party) grim resignation thread

Rise of the Hickenloopers

it is literally never necessary to look at who posts the tweets on any of these threads

that's nice

(and you know what that means in the South)

hey it's in a tweet i guess she didnt really say it

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/coming-generation-war/588670/

sorry 4 niall content

When about 40% of the resources are monopolized by the top 1%, then the remaining people fight over the scraps. Let's change the first term of that equation.

The Koch Brothers are considering spending tons of money to defend Democratic incumbents from progressive primary challengers.https://t.co/xhRcn9Wp0v

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) June 10, 2019

i'm sure they'll throw in Stop Bernie dough if needed

more of this plz

Long-time New York Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel has drawn a primary challenger in his 2020 reelection bid who is supported by a key group that backed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in her upset win.

Middle school principal and former teacher Jamaal Bowman launched his progressive campaign on Tuesday to represent New York’s 16th congressional district, pitting himself against Engel, who has served 16 terms.

Bowman’s platform shows support for Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, increased investment in public schools, free college and reforms to the criminal justice system, according to his video.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449019-justice-democrats-announces-primary-challenger-for-engel

my parents live in engel's district and, uh, good luck bowman

people should run opposition even when there is no hope of winning in that election cycle.

I’m rooting for Bowman, and hopefully he’ll pull off an upset, but I have realistic expectations

"Why yes -- I *too* support neoliberalism and militarism! Corporations are our friends! Our Wise Leaders always have our best interests at heart! Family Guy is not a ripoff of The Simpsons!" https://t.co/6LqvfA2kNK

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 13, 2019

"see dennis perrin's other tweets" links to a morbs page somewhere in the ilx multiverse

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets. iirc

I'd ask (the Americans) if we are all on the same side

Trump wants to make AOC, Pressley, Tlaib and Omar the faces of the Democratic Party. The Democrats, whose current faces of the party are Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer and Biden, should say, thank you very much, Mr. President, for doing what we should've done ourselves.

— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) July 19, 2019

won't argue with that one, other than that I could definitely not pick Steny Hoyer out of a lineup of miserable white congressmen

Dems commissioning and then leaking that uneducated-whites-only polling to Axios to smear the Squad was some truly despicable shit, even before Trump used the polling to bash them.

as Perrin says, bad cop-bad cop

I believe it was Mark Russell who once rhymed "anyhoo" with "Steny who?"

This is good:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/no-more-nice-democrats/

Thats a very good piece!

hell yeah

icymi, P4reeene on the Decade From Hell:

"The story of American politics over the past decade is that of a political party on the cusp of enduring power and world-historical social reform, and how these once imaginable outcomes were methodically squandered."

https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency

Pelosi & Schumer’s tone is procedural updates, boring partisan jabs & patronizing ‘you dont understand how the game works’ head-patting. It’s devoid of any class politics or rage or urgency. 1/3rd of the economy evaporated overnight & it sounds like just another day at the office

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 22, 2020

How can I fp Adam H. Johnson? I'd like to 51 him asap.

If there's one thing missing from US politics atm, it is rage. Everyone is so polite these day that it's hard to get anyone on social media to even admit there are any problems with how things are, let alone work up a good frothing rage over those problems.

not Grancy & Schmucko

that dude is a friend of a friend and I remember pretending to be interested in his phone charging startup at a party years ago. this was long before he made a career out of being the dude who left angry comments on blog posts. he is exactly what you would expect irl.

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/02/11/how-annoying-bar-customers-with-dead.html

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