Democratic (Party) Direction

their interests are aligned, whaddaya expect

I have seen two people drafting tweets in Microsoft word

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 6:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh what the fuck is this

So you’re telling me if I write an MS word plugin that posts tweets I can sell it to consultants for $79?

Bang where is my $10k/mo MRR

I'm not gonna lie when I tweeted for my job I drafted in a text editor because I was so scared I was accidentally going to hit "Tweet" before it was ready

^ wisdom

thats hustling backwards, twitter is a life on the edge, you might fire off some typos, some violent threats to your enemies, you might even accidentally have a nip slip, just another day on the twitter streets`

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE: 80 percent of the economic growth generated by the Republican tax cuts will eventually go abroad and benefit foreigners

FUCK THE RICH. what's so hard about that message?

http://www.newsweek.com/republican-tax-plan-donald-trump-cbo-884129

Nina Turner expressed some concerns about the legality of the raid on Michael Cohen’s office on CNN today. So that’s great and normals

Nina Turner expressed some concerns about the legality of the raid on Michael Cohen’s office on CNN today. So that’s great and normal.

California AFLCIO just endorsed Kevin de Leon over Dianne Feinstein, while the same unions in New York, at Andrew Cuomo's command, split with their own Working Families Party lest Cynthia Nixon get a boost. Why the difference? Read https://t.co/TBqtNlX9pQ

— Harold Meyerson (@HaroldMeyerson) April 16, 2018

cuomo is so shook pic.twitter.com/Fr8GjnGhkw

— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) April 16, 2018

it begins(?)

March: Cuomo (66%), Nixon (19%)
Mid-April: Cuomo (58%) -8% , Nixon (27%) +8%

And this thing is only just getting started. https://t.co/K2zIQ3Gpo0

— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) April 17, 2018

she's running

NEWS: Andrew Cuomo just announced that he's granting all parolees in New York the right to vote by executive order.

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) April 18, 2018

what a fuckin knob

“I am an undocumented person,” Cuomo says, saying he is the descendant of Italian immigrants pic.twitter.com/aQzHlaPPmA

— Joseph Spector (@GannettAlbany) April 12, 2018

pffft

Andy trying to be Mario is even clumsier than i wd've expected

more good news:

CNN has projected that Republicans won the special election in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, but once again Democrats have overperformed in a deep red district, in another sign the national environment is in the their favor.

The vote count is not final, but Republican Debbie Lesko is currently ahead of Democrat Hiral Tipirneni by about a 5-point margin.
In a neutral environment, the margin should be much wider. President Donald Trump won the district by 21 percentage points in 2016 and Mitt Romney won it by 25 percentage points in 2012. Combining those outcomes and controlling for how well Democrats did nationally in each of those contests, we can say that Arizona 8 is 25 points more Republican than the nation. Lesko looks like she's going to do about 20 percentage points worse than that.

Whomever you are, Hiral Tipernini, you made the GOP spend money in Maricopa fucking County, so you’re all right by me.

love how Trump and co. are gloating about this victory

With Hoyer in Denver, Tillemann met the minority whip at the Hilton Denver Downtown to make the case that the party should stay neutral in the primary and that he had a more plausible path to victory than the same centrism that Coffman had already beaten repeatedly.

Hoyer, however, had his own message he wanted to convey: Tillemann should drop out.

In a frank and wide-ranging conversation, Hoyer laid down the law for Tillemann. The decision, Tillemann was told, had been made long ago. It wasn’t personal, Hoyer insisted, and there was nothing uniquely unfair being done to Tillemann, he explained: This is how the party does it everywhere.

Tillemann had heard the argument before from D.C. insiders and local Democratic bigwigs, all of whom had discouraged him from challenging the establishment favorite. The only difference was that for this conversation, the candidate had his phone set to record.

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/steny-hoyer-audio-levi-tillemann/

https://i.yomyomf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/virgil_sollozzo_4.jpg

It wasn’t personal, Hoyer insisted, and there was nothing uniquely unfair being done to Tillemann, he explained

obviously no big surprises here but it is laid out a little more explicitly than usual

well after enjoying such a great run of sustained electoral success, why change tactics?

Well, good to know Intercept will still publish any nothingburger as long as it's 'secretly taped audio'. Talk about not learning from the past.

Meanwhile, opponents of the party’s unspoken pick are driven into paranoia, wondering if they are merely imagining that unseen hands are working against them.

Lol

whatever else our differences may be can we agree "nothingburger" is at least six months past its sell-by date

Which only makes it more fitting for the Intercept

Most of all, Tilleman sounds like a self-righteous asshole. The only thing he has shown about himself is that he is deceitful and untrustworthy, and then he ends like this: 'I’m proud to be on the side of truth. I’m proud to be on the right side of democracy, and I’m proud to be on the right side of free and fair elections.'

It's brainless tribalism, and I wouldn't want to be on the side of Greenwald, Assange, etc.

there's bad political strategy on the one hand, and a nefarious plot to undermine progressives on the other.

pretty sure most of the dems' foibles can be categorized into column A

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Lol that was like an xxxp to Fred, nm

Greenwald, Assange

there are clearly legit reasons to take issue with GG but equating them as being anywhere near equally bad is pretty fucking rough

That's not what I did.

It's brainless tribalism, and I wouldn't want to be on the side of Greenwald, Assange, etc.

― Frederik B, Thursday, April 26, 2018 8:12 PM (sixteen minutes ago)

priding yourself on "not being on someone's side" is brainless tribalism

what "side" do Assange and Greenwald share in 2018, Fred

Ok, so because Tilleman is speaking out against party leadership trying to avoid any debate over the Dem nominee by getting him to withdraw, he’s “on the side” of a Trump-supporting accused rapist asshole. I see why people love discussing politics with you.

I for one have no clue why you would take the side of Hoyer and the DCCC in this, Fred.

Talk about brainless tribalism

Oh J.D. beat me to it

DCCC is making a potentially grave error it they don’t restrain from getting involved in this way. It places too much confidence in conventional wisdom/historical norms to think it will be good enough to just tell people “more progressive candidates can’t win here”. You have the take the risk of seeing that demonstrated. On the immediate level it’s just bad politics.

And you have to love how Steny has no explanation, doesn’t even attempt one, other than to drag out a pompous paraphrase of “life’s not fair”

Fred b really showing his true colors in this last part of the thread. Its kind of hard to understand how anyone who doesn't actually work for the DCCC, DNC or some party consultant or think tank would take that line, which is not to say Fred B does, I just find his opinions here completely baffling.

Also Steny's analogizing progressive candidates to Roy Moore is pretty telling on multiple levels.

I mean even Nerdstrom is not with you on this one Fred

don't criticize the DNC on any grounds because they're the only potential bulwark against Republican/Trumpian rule is myopic but plausible and consistent

I believe Tom Perez was even critical of the DCCC during the whole Laura Moser situation.

don't criticize the DNC on any grounds because they're the only potential bulwark against Republican/Trumpian rule is myopic but plausible and consistent

― Mordy, Thursday, April 26, 2018 4:03 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But how could anyone who follows politics as closely as Fred really see it this way, as though the DNC and DCCC were the only way the Democrats could win? After a relative unknown mounted one of the strongest primary challenges ever to the DNC's pre-crowned nominee for president with near zero backing from party organs and even polled well against the Republican nominee? We're already seeing progressive democrats win formerly red state legislative seats with no help from the DLCC.

These are rhetorical questions. The DNC and DLCC's goals are not solely to win, but also to maintain ideological control over the platform of the party and to keep it "centrist." That is the function of these groups. It's not a nefarious conspiracy, it's just the inevitable result of who their donor base is.

(meant to say DNC and DCCC but same true for DLCC)