christ i hope some scientist manages to resurrect a stegosaur so it fucks you to death
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This is a perfect metaphor for the current state of the Democratic party centrists. https://twitter. com/LasVegasFD/status/1149749646127796225
I just had a crazy idea that probably wouldn't work because you couldn't organize enough people to participate, but couldn't the Democrats destroy Republican gerrymandering by having several Million Democrats register as Republican who then vote D in the elections (after being gerrymandered)?(Right now there are 70 Million registered Democrats vs 50 Million Republicans.)
And it felt nice having an intellectual in office
It made you believe in democracy.
Quote from: Tripon on July 12, 2019, 02:34:41 PMBut I will tell you this, if and when Katie Hill picks an official cascus it probably won't be the "problem solvers" group. People in her district are looking for her to solve shit, not just be a number. That's what did Steve Knight in, the Republican that had Katie Hill's seat before her. Dude couldn't advance simple shit in a Congress that was more conservative, Republican and alligned to his values. I don't think Hill will.make the same mistake.You seem pretty confident about this.Care to make a wager?
But I will tell you this, if and when Katie Hill picks an official cascus it probably won't be the "problem solvers" group. People in her district are looking for her to solve shit, not just be a number. That's what did Steve Knight in, the Republican that had Katie Hill's seat before her. Dude couldn't advance simple shit in a Congress that was more conservative, Republican and alligned to his values. I don't think Hill will.make the same mistake.
Quote from: Tripon on July 12, 2019, 02:34:41 PMImo, Pelosi needs to not just worry about the moderatesThe same moderates who demanded she pass that immigration funding bill in order to show that they weren't going to be bossed around by the progressives?
Imo, Pelosi needs to not just worry about the moderates
Ms. Pelosi’s closest lieutenants, Representatives Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, and James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the majority whip, voted in favor of the Senate bill. (Ms. Pelosi, as is customary for the speaker, did not vote.)But the second tier of leadership — widely seen as next in line to ascend to the top of the House Democratic leadership — did not. Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the caucus chairman; Representative Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, the assistant speaker; and Representative Katherine M. Clark of Massachusetts, the caucus vice chairwoman, voted “no.”The two representatives for the freshman class, Representatives Joe Neguse of Colorado and Katie Hill of California, also voted against the bill.
Quote from: Mandark on July 12, 2019, 02:47:04 PMQuote from: Tripon on July 12, 2019, 02:34:41 PMBut I will tell you this, if and when Katie Hill picks an official cascus it probably won't be the "problem solvers" group. People in her district are looking for her to solve shit, not just be a number. That's what did Steve Knight in, the Republican that had Katie Hill's seat before her. Dude couldn't advance simple shit in a Congress that was more conservative, Republican and alligned to his values. I don't think Hill will.make the same mistake.You seem pretty confident about this.Care to make a wager?Sure, what's the bet? She doesn't join the Problem Solvers caucus group in this congressional session? (end of 116th congress) Let's do $20.
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Quote from: Tripon on July 12, 2019, 05:37:16 PMQuote from: Mandark on July 12, 2019, 02:47:04 PMQuote from: Tripon on July 12, 2019, 02:34:41 PMBut I will tell you this, if and when Katie Hill picks an official cascus it probably won't be the "problem solvers" group. People in her district are looking for her to solve shit, not just be a number. That's what did Steve Knight in, the Republican that had Katie Hill's seat before her. Dude couldn't advance simple shit in a Congress that was more conservative, Republican and alligned to his values. I don't think Hill will.make the same mistake.You seem pretty confident about this.Care to make a wager?Sure, what's the bet? She doesn't join the Problem Solvers caucus group in this congressional session? (end of 116th congress) Let's do $20.Throw in the Blue Dogs and the New Democrats and you've got a deal.
Excellent! How would you like to send me my 20 bucks?
Because you're new to this I'm willing to cut you a break and accept 50 bucks.
I'm starting to think that Clinton might wiggle himself out of the Epstein jam and many others will as well.During the Obama administration this would've been front page news for weeks.Now the Epstein arrest is just a side plot with Acosta bailing so soon.In fact, the media spend most of their time reporting on Acosta as opposed to the charges brought up against Epstein.
Yet his decision to enter the race ― after first announcing he wouldn’t ― has garnered more skepticism than excitement. Even as the climate crisis is expected to play a major role in the presidential contest for arguably the first time, climate activists questioned the theory of his candidacy. There’s already a pair of top-tier populists in Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). There’s already Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), an experienced politician running on the most comprehensive climate policy platform ever put forward. Venture capitalist Andrew Yang already plays the part of the wealthy businessman with provocative ideas. Older, straight, white men make up 13 of the 24 candidates. “I really don’t get it, man,” said a top climate policy researcher in California who requested anonymity because Steyer “has a lot of money” that is used to support climate work around the country.
“I wish he weren’t doing it,” said a prominent activist, who also asked for anonymity for fear of souring a relationship with one of the movement’s top funders. “There was always that question in the back of everybody’s minds of whether he’s driven by ego and whether he’s all out for him, or whether he’s trying to build a movement. This answers the question clearly.”
“It’s hard to make the case for a billionaire running for president in this day and age,” said Julian Brave NoiseCat, the Green New Deal strategist at the left-leaning think tank Data for Progress (and a past HuffPost contributor). “Especially this late in the game, and especially when we were all under the impression he was not running.” Steyer said during a January trip to Iowa that he wouldn’t run for president, instead maintaining his focus on his impeachment effort. In private, he feted Warren’s rhetoric on economic inequality and was excited about Inslee’s climate-centered campaign. But, according to The Atlantic, Steyer grew frustrated with Inslee’s failure to take off as the governor’s polling stayed stuck at 1%. It’s a sentiment activists echoed, with some expressing disappointment that Inslee didn’t seize the first round of televised primary debates with the sort of righteous clarion call on climate that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) issued on race during her star appearance the second night. “Steyer has a better chance at becoming president than Inslee,” said Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, founder of the climate advocacy group SumOfUs. “I love Warren,” she added. “Her heart and head are in the right place on climate policy. But I fear that she won’t prioritize it in her first term, and that is a disaster for the country and the world.”
House Democrats and their aides are quickly losing patience with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her office's nonstop sparring with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other long-serving members, suggesting the speaker's dismissive comments toward her may represent the view of a growing section of the caucus.“She is a complete fraud,” one senior Democratic source told Fox News on Friday, succinctly summing up members' frustration.The last straw, for some, was the lawmaker's claim that Pelosi was uniquely disrespectful to minority congresswomen. One senior lawmaker, who is black, scorched Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday for allegedly using the race card against the speaker, calling her comments "so inappropriate." Some lawmakers have even turned the tables, arguing that a group aligned with her is targeting black lawmakers for potential primary challenges in questioning those comments.“Her peers do not take her seriously,” the senior Democratic source said Friday, adding: “They think it is absurd to call the speaker racist. Offensive and absurd.”The source said Ocasio-Cortez, who won her seat after a stunning primary victory over longtime House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley, has “no power” -- despite her immense Twitter following and unique ability to at times command the news cycle.“She is a nobody. She is a freshman member of Congress with no power. She is not worth the speaker’s brainpower,” the source said -- accusing her of starting "needless distractions from serious issues," and skipping meetings and conference calls in favor of media interviews, tweets and "glamour."“In this building, it is about how many others you can bring along to your side. She maybe has two members—sometimes four,” the source added.
Most of what I dislike about Mary Pete was expressed in this Current Affairs article, which does a good job of using his own words (mostly from, ugh, Shortest Way Home, his memoir pretending to manifesto) to damn him. Shortest Way Home conjures a young Harvard student who thinks the word “edgy” is sufficient to describe both proto-Dumpster fascist Lyndon LaRouche and Noam Chomsky. His description of Harvard Square takes in those actors who belong to the school; the homeless people who live there are invisible to him, or, even worse, not worth mentioning. He seems perfectly content to dismiss left-wing student activists as “social justice warriors” despite the fact that this phrase is paradigmatic in right-wing discourse. He speaks fondly of his time at McKinsey, a company regularly described as one of the most evil corporations in the world. He joined the military long after 9/11 could sort-of-but-not-really be invoked to justify the U.S. propensity to go to other countries and kill lots of people. By 2007 it was no longer possible to pretend that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were anything other than failed, murderous exercises in empire-building and/or revenge, but despite the fact that these were the only places he was likely to serve he signed up anyway. And though he loves to talk about the notes he left his family in case he didn’t come back, by all accounts his chances of seeing combat were as low as they could be—but boy, he sure got a lot of cute pictures in uniform out of it!Every move is simultaneously cynical and morally oblivious. They’re the steps one takes not to learn about the world but to become a marketable political candidate (hmmm, what’s a good counter to the whole sleeps-with-men thing? I know: military service!) (side benefit: you’re surrounded by hot guys!) and if as a Harvard-educated Rhodes Scholar you decide not to be a captain of industry, then clearly the White House is where you belong. I mean, sure, he wants to make the world a better place. But the operative word in that sentence, just as it was with Bill Clinton, is “he,” not “world,” and “better,” for Mary Pete, is just the neoliberal variation of “make America great again,” which is to say that in Buttigieg’s version of American history the progressive ideals in the First, Thirteenth, and Nineteenth Amendments, in the Civil Rights Act and Roe v. Wade and marriage equality, are the only authentically American ideas, whereas slavery and Jim Crow and border security and defense of marriage campaigns and heartbeat laws are nothing but aberrations, glitches in the code rather than yin to liberalism’s yang, warp to its weft, a set of ivory chess pieces lined up across from a set of ebony chess pieces and equally powerful.
All this makes Mary Pete different from every other left-leaning neoliberal in exactly zero ways. Because let’s face it. The only thing that distinguishes the mayor of South Bend from all those other well-educated reasonably intelligent white dudes who wanna be president is what he does with his dick (and possibly his ass, although I get a definite top-by-default vibe from him, which is to say that I bet he thinks about getting fucked but he’s too uptight to do it). So let’s dish the dish, homos. You know and I know that Mary Pete is a gay teenager. He’s a fifteen-year-old boy in a Chicago bus station wondering if it’s a good idea to go home with a fifty-year-old man so that he’ll finally understand what he is. He’s been out for, what, all of four years, and if I understand the narrative, he married the first guy he dated. And we all know what happens when gay people don’t get a real adolescence because they spent theirs in the closet: they go through it after they come out. And because they’re adults with their own incomes and no parents to rein them in they do it on steroids (often literally). If Shortest Way Home (I mean really, can you think of a more treacly title?) makes one thing clear, Mary Pete was never a teenager. But you can’t run away from that forever. Either it comes out or it eats you up inside. It can be fun, it can be messy, it can be tragic, it can be progenitive, transformative, ecstatic, or banal, but the last thing I want in the White House is a gay man staring down 40 who suddenly realizes he didn’t get to have all the fun his straight peers did when they were teenagers. I’m not saying I don’t want him to shave his chest or do Molly or try being the lucky Pierre (the timing’s trickier than it looks, but it can be fun when you work it out). These are rites of passage for a lot of gay men, and it fuels many aspects of gay culture. But like I said, I don’t want it in the White House. I want a man whose mind is on his job, not what could have been—or what he thinks he can still get away with.So yeah. Unlike my experience with Gar, I actually want to tell Mary Pete to take a good hard look at his world, at his experiences and his view of the public good as somehow synonymous with his own success, and I want him to reject it. I want to do this not because I have any particular desire to hurt his feelings, but because I made a similar journey, or at least started out from a similar place, and I was lucky enough to realize (thank you, feminism; thank you, ACT UP) that the only place that path leads is a gay parody of heteronormative bourgeois domesticity: the “historic” home, the “tasteful” decor (no more than one nude photograph of a muscular torso per room; statuary only if they’re fair copies of Greek or Roman originals), the two- or four- or six-pack depending on how often you can get to the gym and how much you hate yourself, the theatre (always spelled with an -re) subscription, the opera subscription, the ballet subscription, the book club, the AKC-certified toy dog with at least one charming neurosis and/or dietary tic, the winter vacation to someplace “tropical,” the summer vacation to someplace “cultural,” the specialty kitchen appliances—you just have to get a sous vide machine, it changed our life! Sorry, boys, that’s not a life, it’s something you buy from a catalog. It’s a stage set you build so you can convince everyone else (or maybe just yourself) that you’re as normal as they are. Call me a hick from the sticks, but I don’t want someone who fills out his life like he fills out an AP exam serving as the country’s moral compass. And no, I wouldn’t kick him out of bed.
Skipping meetings... lol. Go to Washington so you can tweet, brehs.
Quote from: kingv on July 12, 2019, 08:11:43 PMWorked for Trump did build a coalition, though, he co-opted the Phyllis Schlafly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity insurgency that hated the corporate elitists and Romneyites running the Republican party. The same people that kicked Michael Steele out for trying to diversify the party. This might sound like hairsplitting, but those people were an established part of the coalition already. Justice Democrats consistently attack the party in ways the Tea Party could only do because they had a broad crosscutting operation already (half of Fox News, social institutions like churches). Basically I'm saying AOC blew her load too early. Skipping meetings... lol. Go to Washington so you can tweet, brehs.
Worked for
When he found out I was a writer he got excited and said I must love the New Yorker! I told him I hated the New Yorker. He asked how I could hate the New Yorker and I told him that besides the fact that the New Yorker published shitty fiction (plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose), and the only gay fiction it published was assimilationist and boring, there was also the fact that an editor there (Dan Menaker, if we’re naming names) had rejected a story of mine by suggesting in his correspondence with my agent (by which I mean that he wasn’t embarrassed to write this down, let alone worried about repercussions) that psychological problems were preventing me from creating effective fiction. (By the way, fuck you, Dan.) None of which made any sense to Gar. The New Yorker was important so I must love it. I just didn’t know I loved it yet. Or something like that. At some point in this exchange I remember saying something along the lines of Look, I’m just going to apologize now, because it’s pretty clear that sooner or later I’m going to say something really offensive to you and your feelings are going to be hurt. I don’t want to do that, but you’re clearly not getting the fact that you and I don’t look at the world the same way, and you keep thinking that if you hang around long enough we’re going to find common ground, when all you’re really doing is making our differences that much clearer. He laughed at this, one of those confused/nervous/defensive laughs, and if I’d been more mature I would have been more blunt and told him to get lost. But I too was a little deluded. I thought he had to get the hint eventually. But although I understood pretty much everything else about him, I failed to reckon fully with his lack of self-respect.
He asked what he would have to do to get me to go out with him. Without thinking, I said, Take a good look at yourself and your world, reject everything in it, and then get back to me. It was the kind of soul-killing line people are always delivering in movies but never comes off in real life, mostly because even the most oblivious, self-hating person usually has enough wherewithal to cut someone off before they’re fully read for filth. I believe I have indicated that Gar did not possess this level of self-awareness. His face went shapeless and blank as though the bones of his skull had melted. For one second I thought I saw a hint of anger, which might’ve been the first thing he’d done all night that I could identify with. Then he scurried away.
https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1149802048633942021
there was also the fact that an editor there (Dan Menaker, if we’re naming names) had rejected a story of mine by suggesting in his correspondence with my agent (by which I mean that he wasn’t embarrassed to write this down, let alone worried about repercussions) that psychological problems were preventing me from creating effective fiction.
The United States doesn't have parties
Platypus Power9 months ago3rd world country: Needs stabilizingCIA: It's free real estate
egjw123410 months agoThis is probably the best cia recruitment video that can ever exist
Minion Duck1 day agoYou shall not take the lord name in vain.A synonym for "In vain" would be "Useless"Or."Fruitless"So let's say your friend tells a joke and you laugh.And you say "Omg" now did you need god for that?You can't swear to god because his name is holy.Only say his name.To pray.Praise.Bless.Or for his glory.
Quote from: curly on July 12, 2019, 09:06:47 PMThe United States doesn't have parties(Image removed from quote.)
Continuing to use the name Tyrus, Murdoch became a Fox News contributor on The Greg Gutfeld Show. He later became a regular contributor on Dana Perino’s daytime news show, The Daily Briefing. In April 2019, Murdoch became a co-host of a show called Un-PC on Fox Nation (Fox News's streaming channel). Murdoch premiered a new Fox Nation show called Nuff Said in June 2019.
The Funkasaurus has a show on Fox News https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1149473061625712640spoiler (click to show/hide)[close]
Sending money to Bernie and Warren's campaigns. You happy Agra!?!?
Queens Democratic boss and 11-term congressman Greg Meeks took a thinly-veiled jab at fellow Big Apple Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday, urging her to back off her racially-tinged feud with party leaders or face a fight for her political life.In an interview with the Daily News, Meeks fumed over Ocasio-Cortez’s recent racial beef with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and pushed back against her left-wing allies at Justice Democrats for openly backing insurgent candidates trying to unseat members of the Congressional Black Caucus.He also said the CBC can play the same game.“Primaries go two ways," Meeks said when asked whether his wing of the party would consider challenging progressive members next year, including Ocasio-Cortez. “If someone picks a fight with somebody else, you fight back. That’s what my parents told me.”
Meeks said the Justice Democrats and left-leaning lawmakers may be shooting the party in the foot.“I would hope that these individuals would realize who the opposition is here,” Meeks said, referring to Republicans. “The focus should be to keep the majority, grow the majority and win the presidency.”
Meeks called Ocasio-Cortez’s Pelosi comments “intolerable."“We’re all on the same team,” Meeks said. “You don’t go after the speaker like that.”
A Democratic leadership source, who only spoke on condition of anonymity, was harsher.“Justice Democrats in general are trust fund kids who are funding this with their parents’ money,” the source said, blasting the progressive group as “elitist” for criticizing black lawmakers from poor districts who take corporate donations. “It’s offensive for CBC members when these elites are looking down on them when they don’t have the financial ability to say, ‘I don’t want that money.’”Asked for an example, the source pointed to Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff and Justice Democrats co-founder Saikat Chakrabarti, a millionaire Harvard graduate who worked on Wall Street before turning to left-wing politics.
Jon Finkel is in DSA even though he literally manages a hedge fund. spoiler (click to show/hide)Kai Budde went from working in Curacao to working in Malta. spoiler (click to show/hide)Horrifying...https://twitter.com/kaibudde/status/569108066320441344[close][close]
