Democratic (Party) Direction

I only care about that faintly, but I care very much what it's like in 50 and even 500

oh dear, thanks for that heads up on Oregon, time to call ppl

fuck Nike btw and I don't give a shit that Knight is "no longer involved"

2020 primaries are going to be amazing.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dr1XOPyU0AAy3AD.jpg

was that really necessary

lol Debra Messing RTd that with "This is everything"

livestock in the bedroom is only allowable when youre like a one room agrarian society imo

Silby: from an ethical perspective, the 7.6 billion living now and the < 2 billion living in 7000 AD have equal standing.

It's why the only civilization that has any hope of persisting makes "leave the world better than you found it" the first ethical commandment. And flays alive those that violate it.

Utilitarianism is wrong actually

Take this elsewhere plz

That tweet is so stupid I just choked on my eyes rolling into the back of my head.

Corporate personhood is a concept created by the judiciary, and will only be abolished by the judiciary.

Not strictly true -- when I was working for democracy reform we aimed at a constitutional amendment, which has picked up not insignificant approval at the state level in a number of places.

Common Cause and Represent.Us are both pursuing this state-based approach, following what they (imo shakily) insist is the model of the civil rights movement.

5 minutes: aw yea
5 months: let's go
5 years: that's my shit
5 decades: now you're speaking my language
5 centuries: whoa boy let's not get ahead of ourselves
5 millennia: Galaxy brain

“I’m gonna take the table,” says @Ocasio2018, “because we are busting down the doors.” pic.twitter.com/tQ8IebKtBb

— Sunrise Movement 🌅 (@sunrisemvmt) November 13, 2018

swoon

5 millennia: my longest yeah boy ever

Meanwhile geologists are like "Hmph. Pikers."

spurs timetable for moving into new stadium iirc

this owns almost as much as watching scumbarnacles like ragnarok lobster meltdown over it

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sunrise-activists-nancy-pelosi/

lol so glad I have no idea who that is

like, in ignorance, i don't really imagine pelosi seeing aoc's position here as a personal problem. maybe because i don't care if that's pelosi's take, or cuz aoc's position needs action, or cuz i am ok with both of them generally.

and yeah me neither, i was thinking the person raggy was having a "lobster meltdown," not raggy l having a normal meltdown.

ragnarok lobster is................................................very bad

ragnarok lobster
ragnarok lobster

tweeter's tweetin'
socialist swattin'
left wing rippin'
keyboard tappin'

ha i just saw other thread and twitter and pelosi did indeed react very much in my imagined character for her. xp

otoh lobster meltdowns (with butter) are too too cruel but quite delicious.

checkin up on old rag lob led me to this, and wow folks it's such a bad tweet

Hi I’m the new sales rep. I haven’t sold shit ain’t hit nary a quota, but here let me walk in the corner office of the lady that buys a new BMW every quarter off the interest of her residuals and no not beg for her knowledge tell her how to sell. Holy shit.

— Sir Baba Adeptus Oracle of Civility (@brill_inst) November 13, 2018

the wave emoji people (<--- this is twitter for angry centrists who think AOC is an all-talk bernie-in-WOC's clothing) are yelling that it was leaked last week that the select committee would be reestablished, that this was already pelosi's plan, that AOC is embarassing herself by not knowing this

obviously the idiots haven't followed quite closely enough to notice that along with 're-establish the select committee' there's also a draft resolution for its new mandate framed as exploration for a green jobs for all plan, and that's the real heart of the ask

oversimplification of your opponent's position is a prominent tool in the political toolbox.

you should really change your DN to Captain Obvious

you should calm the fuck down

I'm much better now that I have the new killfile script, thanks

https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brightest/myopia-rules-lehmann

^^ Chris Lehmann has a talent for scornful prosing. I know there's a place for that in political discourse, but it's a place full of enthusiasts who only want to hear someone who tells them how very right they are. I mean, yeah, good for them for being right, but doing right beats being right and Chris fails to reach for that conclusion, which kinda falls flat for me.

aimless you are awful

― homosexual II, Monday, December 16, 2013

Oh boy! I've grown a tail!

sleeve im no civility cop but cmon try to be nice man we all like to hang out here

OK

can we talk about the whole "Clinton's gonna run again" blip in the media cycle, which seems to have already been discredited as nonsense from a former staffer? like, was the point of that just to rile people up and push those good old 2016 buttons? who pushes these stories? it it just the media's compulsive need for drama?

yes

the media's, and social media's

there were people in media obsessed with whether John Kerry was going to run again in 2008

The veteran Democrats named as wary about a Green New Deal in this article have accepted nearly https://twitter.com/KateAronoff/status/1063507622823890945 million in campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests https://t.co/BBlMdFgpUd

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) November 16, 2018

dollar signs really fuck up tweet posts, apparently.

it's weird that these shitty centrist dems are making their power play at a moment when they could not be less relevant to the future of the party.

tbf shitty centrist dems are literally in a permanent power play

really ready for someone to primary Defazio at this point

i still want to find someone to take a run at schrader in OR-5, dude is the bluest of blue dogs

On Nov. 18, Bill and Hillary Clinton will launch a nationwide tour of 13 cities, kicking off in Las Vegas.

The show, dubbed “An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,” has been organized by Live Nation.

“From the American presidency to the halls of the Senate and State Department to one of the United States’ most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections, they provide a unique perspective on the past, and remarkable insight into where we go from here,” the show’s web site declares.

Bring some long green. Ticket prices will range from $750 to $72 per person, reports Fortune magazine.

If the Clintons pack them in, consider that a valuable gauge of Hillary’s viability.

Does Hillary still sell?

https://chicago.suntimes.com/?post_type=cst_article&p=1467238

Whoa, awesome!! Hope it’s not sold out already!

I really should have linked to the title of the article, which is:

Hillary Clinton remains the Democrats best chance to defeat Trump in 2020

in the spring, Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are opening in a Broadway play entitled Hillary and Clinton

i sincerely hope they are the only Clintons visible then