I stopped roughly where they stopped being at least personally interesting
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
Garcetti is very likely running for President.
can't think of this guy without thinking of this guy: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/The_Wire_Carcetti.jpg/220px-The_Wire_Carcetti.jpg
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
Though I also omitted Gretna as a non-regional outlier
i know he was based on O'Malley, but Eric seems to fit that profile even more
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
Y'all generally have to explain your television references to me, though the O'Malley cite did the trick.
I knew Garcetti was going to be a much bigger name down the road when I almost literally ran into him six years ago, but thought it would probably take a bit longer for him to run for Prez. I'm not sure to what degree he's more scintillating than O'Malley, but he's definitely less of a weirdo.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
oh, to literally run into you
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
Ok, Joe Biden.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
I'll make sure to say hello next time.
xp but do you really think anyone who does not live in new york city is going to give a statistically measurable shit about gillibrand endorsing cuomo
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
everyone's just writing in "bernie" this time anyway, right?
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 22 March 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
a senator endorsing a 2-time guv from her own party = predictable as sunrise
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 March 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/22/trump-vs-biden-who-would-win-217698
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 23 March 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
hopefully neither lives that long
― Simon H., Friday, 23 March 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
Real commitment to the collective there.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 23 March 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
The article fails to note the female cheers that greeted the line.
Were these cheering females of german ancestry by any chance? Then we'd have something to sink our teeth into.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 23 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
No Mr. Bus Driver, are you?
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 23 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
dunno what you mean by that but Aimless actually was a bus driver for a time iirc
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
No
Are you absolutely sure of that? Because the exact demographics these female cheers represent are potentially revelatory. Sure, we've established they are female, but there are approximately 170,000,000 females in the USA and they don't vote as a monolithic bloc, so we'll have to dig deeper than that to get to their true significance.
are you?
According to legend, yes. It's partly german, partly irish, plus some northern European odds and ends. Why is that important?
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
dunno what you mean by that
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, March 23, 2018 4:00 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I hoped someone was old enough to get the reference
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:05 (six years ago) link
Aimless actually was a bus driver for a time
Correct. I spent five years transporting our nation's most precious resource (to coin a phrase) to and from school. It was a job.
You could probably make a guess and land within a few feet of what he meant.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
our nation's most precious resource
dank memes?
― bone thugs & prosody (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
guns?
― playing in his high school band “The Velvet Pickle” (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 March 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
Our precious bodily fluids.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 23 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
candidates who can opportunistically pivot left >>> inflexible centrists
― Simon H., Thursday, March 22, 2018 5:40 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
truly, lets go
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 24 March 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
Don't, you creepy fucking turd.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
drop it or sell tickets, dudes
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 24 March 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link
taking this long to ban him again = the lowest moment of the board
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 March 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
Maybe you guys think he's too young or too low-profile or I dunno what, but I sure do like Pete Buttigieg.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 24 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
I heard people talking about him (sporadically) after Hillary lost in 2016. Followed up at the time, but have already forgotten everything I learned about him.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 25 March 2018 02:18 (six years ago) link
I thought he was really sharp when he ran for DNC chair--had i not been behind Ellison I woulda supported him.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2018 05:11 (six years ago) link
my wife went todaywe were all gonna go but my daughter got scared that someone would shoot the protest and got pretty freaked out so we stayed home :(
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 March 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
my daughter got scared that someone would shoot the protest
that right there, that's what has happened to us
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 25 March 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
I thought the same. immiserating to know that and empathize with it.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
i worried all day we'd hear news of that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 26 March 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
And with shit like this that was not an unfounded worry. (Not my personal photo, internet.)
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/NRA.jpg
― No energy, only great chaos (Dan Peterson), Monday, 26 March 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
The guy with the gun is the most afraid person in that photo.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/25/books/mitch-landrieu-mayor-new-orleans-in-shadow-of-statues-interview.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/mitch-landrieu-new-orleans-trump.html
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/27/buttigieg-2020-president-off-message-217712
IDK, Veepstakes/Cabinet maybe. He's a Rhodes scholar, ok, but I don't really buy a 36 year old mayor of a 100K city. That's seven years younger than Julian Castro and 1/15th the size of San Antonio (which tbf has a weak mayor system iirc) without previous Cabinet experience. At least Seth Moulton, who's 39, has been in Congress three years. Did Buttigieg think he'd lose to Jackie Walorski or did he think that was beneath him?
I guess maybe someone thinks he and the 36 year old ex-MO SOS will draw the attention of millennials to the process. Maybe they're right.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
I’m watching Hickenlooper speak at a conf RN and ehhhhh
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
Experience doesn't matter anymore, buddy
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
At least in terms of electability
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
― alomar lines, Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:03 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:04 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, March 27, 2018 2:05 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I wasn't necessarily referring to the latter, but I assure you that there are tens of millions of Americans who a) would regard a septuagenarian as automatically more qualified than a thirtysomething, and b) regarded Donald Trump in particular as having experience highly relevant to or desirable in the job.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
this is why the US continued a long and proud tradition of electing 70-year-olds to the presidency. Or maybe Trump was the first one.
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
Trump was the very first one
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
it's possible that my DN is confusing when I'm arguing with the real deal
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
i thought Moo Vaughn was a reference to moveon.org in the first place
― had (crüt), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
i thought it was a cow-based pun on the former mets first baseman
― MooVaughn.org (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
wow i totally forgot Vaughn played for the Mets
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link