Democratic (Party) Direction

Yup. Repubs own the troop respecter vote, regardless of who you run.

It's not a perfect analogy but it reminds me of Republicans who think they can peel off lots of latino votes by running a Cuban candidate from an exiled resort millionaire family.

I still want Tammy Duckworth tho

Pretty much, man alive.

Who among you is willing to see the glorious blinding sun against the backdrop of a blood-drenched sky?

Heart pounding. Adrenaline taken beyond the max limits.

What I see is something else. Do you guys really not follow everything closely, and remember it? Even as it disappears within hours... I can't blame you if you don't catch it fast enough.

We were all born in interesting times. Way beyond this shit. Guess that's fun, right? There's strange fucking shit going on, no different than the history we love to study.

Who said history stopped? They were idiots!

what

What, you think we were spared the "interesting times" of history? Make the most of it, man.

Who said history stopped? They were idiots!

It was some prof in his mid-thirties who instantly became the darling of the Republicans during the first Bush administration. His name mercifully escapes me.

I'm just having a little fun here. But really, things feel fucking weird as shit right now, way beyond this stuff...

be more coherent please

The answer is, too much beer, and too much time on Twitter. I just like throwing joy and adventure to the air, the world's miserable enough, friend.

People take shit way too seriously.

there's a whole world out there just begging for you to impose some fun on it. why us?

No idea. That's the fun of the world, eh? Dunno what the fuck's going on, that's why I'm peacin' out of politics!

Too muuch Twitter is the answer here. Yeesh! Curiosity killed the cat.

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I really don't think it's an exaggeration to say @Ocasio2018's primary against Joe Crowley tomorrow has the potential to be as big or bigger as the 2014 Eric Cantor/Dave Brat race that remade the GOP

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) June 26, 2018

Only if she wins though, right? If she doesn’t it’ll be the next one down the line.

Well, if she loses, it'll be a fair sign there's still a ways to go.

What if she loses by a bare margin? The measure of 'how far we have to go' is the margin of victory or loss, as I understand these things.

Pelosi knows the odds are against her. She knows there may be nothing she can do to stop the Democrats from taking control of Congress. But she will keep fighting til the bitter end. pic.twitter.com/UPBXXdZR8C

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) June 26, 2018

The recent This American Life on Jeff Beals' campaign in NY-19 was done well, I thought it was sympathetic and fair to him while also doing a good job of explaining why the current system makes things difficult for candidates like him in ways that go beyond just the whims of the leadership of the party. He's not an AOC in terms of charisma and promise but he seems like a very smart guy and I like his politics.

Hearing that Team @JoeCrowleyNY is taking our campaign posters, affixing them to trees, and then reporting them to @NYCSanitation to fine us.

They are trying to ratchet us into 0k worth of fines.

If you see anyone affixing our posters illegally, STOP THEM and take a photo.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) June 26, 2018

She is kinda full of shit.

You sure about that, Fred?

better than being 100% full of shit like Fred

Here's an Ocasio volunteer personally reporting that there are Crowley flyers in place of all of the Ocasio flyers he hung:

https://www.facebook.com/eric.wimer?hc_ref=ARSQvBNVavymjZft0xliuSeHZVjpneUiAKILALkjSVJovFltO6PdG4Noizp-p3S8aSM&fref=nf

"Already today I’ve had Daniel Dromm lie to voters that Alexandria endorsed domestic abused Hiram Monserratte when there’s video of her saying the opposite, polling sites changed early in the morning, and team Joseph Crowley search for and rip down every poster I got up at 4:30am to tape up, replacing them with their own.

Keep it classy #TeamCrowley"

Megan Devir Did you see this in person..? Beyond disappointing to see someone like Councilmember Dromm endorse Crowley, let alone play dirty this way.
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Eric Wimer
Eric Wimer Sadly not but found mine gone and his in all the places where they were.

What is your assessment of that person's level of full-of-shitness? How does it look from over there?

I don't even know why that would be hard to believe, it's classic old school machine shit. I have personally witnessed it in other campaigns. It's not even a particularly high level of dirty trick.

Yeah, this sounds like the same kind of 'He send a latina because she looked like me!' idiocy. 'Hearing that...' is rumor-mongering, plain and simple.

Fred I'm glad Danish elections are completely free of dirty electioneering and machine influence

I'm still rooting for her, because fuck Crowley and fuck machine-politics, but she is conspiracy mongering for viral attention, and it's depressing if that's what it takes for the American left to win.

lol it's not a conspiracy, what do you think machines do?

conspiracy-mongering would be "they are shaving millimeters off my chair, putting sugar in my gas tank, and leaving me ASMR voicemails"

but what's being questioned here is precisely your certainty that this is conspiracy-mongering versus the kind of thing a campaign (or even some overzealous undisciplined volunteers) would actually do. going "fuck machine politics" in the same breath as "it's implausible that this politician's underlings would do something mildly shady" is frankly just confusing.

tearing down opponents' posters is like entry-level campaigning schtick, didn't you guys see Election.

heck I've done it, I am not even a campaign volunteer

I'll just do it out of pique

She is not saying they are tearing down her posters, she is claiming that they are putting them elsewhere to get her campaign fined. Even though how does that hurt her election chances? And apparently nobody who has seen this very common practice has managed to take a photo of it?

If I was hearing it was happening from my supporters I would probably treat it credulously too. She’s also asking people get actual evidence if they see it, which seems fair.

It doesn't have to make sense to be plausible, and if it's a complete fabrication it's a plausible fabrication, which is also pretty typical campaigning. People will do any damn thing to win an election that they think they can get away with

x-post: Yeah, but then her next tweet was this:

.@NYCSanitation what can we do about potential cases of fraud?

We have provided strict printed instructions to all individuals and they are trained to be fully compliant.

What do we do about fraudulent actions?

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) June 26, 2018

Yeah, this sounds like the same kind of 'He send a latina because she looked like me!' idiocy. 'Hearing that...' is rumor-mongering, plain and simple.

― Frederik B, Tuesday, June 26, 2018 3:53 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uhhh this but that is clearly without a doubt what happened. Take my word for it as someone who a) lives here and b) has worked on an NYC political campaign and has friends in politics.

again Fred I'm glad things are so genteel where you live that the reality of our election systems is so implausible, it must be very calming

Mostly I'm baffled by the lefts inability to work a camera. Which isn't particularly calming, lol.

And it IS disappointing for Dromm to endorse Crowley btw.

You think canvassers have time ON ELECTION DAY to stand around with a camera in the shadows when they've been up since 4.30? Jesus. If they have so much free time why do you think they got up so early to begin with?

lol

is the essential pointless weirdness of a danish hobbyist holding forth on NYC parochial politics supposed to just sit in this thread unaddressed ok cool

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is the essential pointless weirdness of a danish hobbyist holding forth on NYC parochial politics supposed to just sit in this thread unaddressed ok cool

― goole, 26. juni 2018 18:25 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This discussion was begun by noted NYC native Simon H, lol.