Democratic (Party) Direction

(also want to take away everybody's guns fwiw, and have sky-high taxes and universal healthcare)

same but this is one policy position where I am not going to be all that disgruntled that my rep doesn't share (or at least doesn't advocate) my position.

Maybe I'll write her though.

Shakey otm

Remember TPP?

I do want open borders though

― Οὖτις, Monday, December 3, 2018

we need to onboard those migrants imo

"...Don't ya'll have jobs to do?" AOC is sooooo good.

This thread (only 2 tweets long, don't worry) is really good, and an interesting revelation:

This week I went to dive spot in DC for some late night food. I chatted up the staff.

SEVERAL bartenders, managers, & servers *currently worked in Senate + House offices.*

This is a disgrace. Congress of ALL places should raise MRAs so we can pay staff an actual DC living wage.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 3, 2018

hoo boy

Joe Biden: "I think I am the most qualified person in the country to be president" https://t.co/TZdhneEqeX pic.twitter.com/oYWS2HGYZI

— The Hill (@thehill) December 4, 2018

yknow i'd be interested in and open to the idea of a biden critically reconsidering his own self-presentation to tweak & atone for things like his mistakes around anita hill and clear lack of grasp of structural forces at play in our low intensity generational warfare but i will not hold my breath

If one's resume can be said to fully describe one's qualifications, then Biden has the right kind of resume to back up his claim. But the idea that qualifications begin and end with one's resume is a stupid conceit.

atone for things like his mistakes around anita hill

i agree, but he just missed the most obvious opportunity to do that, re: kavanaugh. during those hearings, he called for a delay and gave a pretty boilerplate statement through his spokesperson. he could have used that opportunity to say "i was wrong about anita hill and i deeply regret it. it's time to do the right thing", etc etc.

then there's the non-apology apology he gave to teen vogue (RIP) in dec 2017:

"I believed Anita Hill," Biden told Teen Vogue. "And my one regret is that I wasn't able to tone down the attacks on her by some of my Republican friends. I mean, they really went after her. As much as I tried to intervene, I did not have the power to gavel them out of order."
"I wish I had been able to do more for Anita Hill," he added. "I owe her an apology."
In a PBS interview in January, Biden said he had not contacted Hill about an apology. His team acknowledged Monday that he and Hill have not spoken.

yeah, ok. one of these days, he's going to get around to talking to anita hill, but he's very busy right now.

nobody's perfect and there's quite a lot that i like about biden, but anyone else please

yupp

Biden is not gonna drive the minority and youth turnout that the Dems are going to need

to say nothing of all the shit I actually disagree w him on + his shitty past positions

Last time I heard, being unable to gather enough votes to win disqualifies a person to be president.

I mean not really unless you mean enough votes to win in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan - in which case...

Big Credit muppet

Biden is certainly one of the most over-35 years old people I know of. There's qualification #1.

i love how much she breaks their brains

Quite incredible. Right leaning publishers have written over 10x the articles about @Ocasio2018 than their counterparts on the left since June 2018. Engagement numbers are staggering also - via @NewsWhip pic.twitter.com/2GHyEVPoYj

— Jonathan Barnes (@BarnesWhip) December 3, 2018

for Biden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PskygyOhIsM

this is normally the kind of self-congratulating trite shit that i hate but i think in this case it might be true that AOC really scares the fuck out of the right bc she's such a charismatic vehicle for socialist ideas.

also she effectively fights back, which is unusual for democratic candidates

apparently she particularly scares never-trumpers, to the extent that they say she's ... like trump

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the progressive Trump," says @matthewwalther: https://t.co/1g4k0Ic6VN pic.twitter.com/kN8f5x7qo8

— The Week (@TheWeek) December 4, 2018

lmao at the author bio:

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers

she's ideologically terrifying + physically attractive = ie clickbait for right-wing outlets

In the remote chance that Biden honors the Mike Barnacles and "Morning" Joes and wins the nomination, I'd vote for him. But the only way I'd support him would be if he grew his hair, represent a district encompassing parts of Queens and the Bronx, changed his gender, learned to work Twitter like Geddy Lee does the bass, and changed his gender.

so... Joe > Josephine > then back to Joe?

Joe enbyden or gtfo

Joe or Josephine?

i appreciate whoever made this

https://i.imgur.com/JMWkzxp.png

Joe enbyden or gtfo

― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, December 4, 2018 11:23 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg

For those not familiar with rightwing DC tradcath columnist Matthew Walther, here’s him two years ago on a certain podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvN464imtMQ

Shttps://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1070365397294174208

whoops

#hesrunning pic.twitter.com/HvcAYQnYYu

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 5, 2018

There shouldn't be an age requirement for office. Or if there is one, it should be no more geriatric fucks allowed.

i don't want people to respect the dignity of my work. i want to not work.

Admittedly it would be dope if he or anyone could run on an anti-work line.

a recommended anthology for the anti-work gang: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=968

(don't read bob black if u can avoid it imo)

i don't wanna work why would i wanna read

lol otm about Bob Black

she's ideologically terrifying + physically attractive = ie clickbait for right-wing outlets

oh god she's the left-wing Tomi Lahren

god thats insulting to AOC

so insulting.

FP-worthy, almost.

By rights, the conservative commentariat ought to be calling her "The Honorable Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez".

Robby Mook lives!

Democrats are at war over the party’s most precious commodity — voter data — and it’s threatening their chances of beating President Donald Trump in 2020.

The fight involves a trove of Democratic voter information splintered among state parties, outside groups and the Democratic National Committee. The DNC wants to pool all of it into one massive database that could be leveraged to the benefit of the party’s eventual presidential nominee. But state parties are accusing the national party of mounting a power grab that could enrich a handful of elite party figures.

“We have a crisis,” said Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager in 2016. “Republicans are going to have a major strategic advantage over us in 2020 if we don’t fix it.”

But the DNC’s answer has provoked a fierce backlash among state parties, who have most of the ownership rights to the party’s voter file. Tensions flared at a meeting of state-based party officials here last week.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/06/democratic-national-committee-voters-data-1045995

.@Ocasio2018 makes me believe what Arundhati Roy said: “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” https://t.co/f2iGtT7T9V

— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) December 5, 2018

Y'know it may go without saying that I'm generally an AOC fan, and this guy (her Chief of Staff) is smart and fine, but man starry eyed stuff like this from one's own staff, aside from putting a remarkable amount of pressure on anyone, just feels like such a bad look

yeah that's super cringeworthy

i don't see the problem with it? why not feel moved by the possibility that a better world is just over the horizon and that we can help bring it into being?

I think the problem is your paid employees saying stuff like that about you. It doesn't bug me that much but it doesn't seem strange to me to be bugged by it.