For an 86 year old to be treated for pancreatic cancer and come through is nothing short of amazing.
Wrap her in bubble wrap for the next year and a half.
Wrap her in bubble wrap for the next year and a half.
Dannyboy-
I get your take messing it up enough to lose some of his base -but I've heard some trumpiteers say we'll put up with that (economic problems) if it will get us this.
(And like your a good recovery from the next Dem admin),
But at the same time some of the first people effected probably will be middle to lower wage people of color, maybe older workers and that makes me worry because i have friends and acquaintances in those categories (among others). So not sure i could wish for that.
So many people here misunderstand the point of a primary. We need to be able to criticize the Democratic candidates right now. That's how we vet them to see who is best to try and win in 2020. My criticisms of Joe Biden are both because I think he'd be bad for the country and would be a dangerous risk of losing to Trump. He has a shitty record, he's losing his mental capacity to handle all of this, and he's only going to get worse over the next 15 months of campaigning. Tonight, he pulled a Hillary Clinton and publicly speculated about Barack Obama getting assassinated to score political points.Ruth Bader just underwent cancer treatment.
I now implore everyone to shut the fuck up and vote for any Dem in 2020, and take vanloads of people to the polls. 3 appointments by fucking Trump would be worse than i ever imagined.
Great!This event is for any minorities or people of color in the Baltimore/DC area who are tired of remaining in the liberal poverty trap. There are other ways of thinking. Think for yourself.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jfZG-ltw2/?igshid=111npodvlc4c5
I get it, but I worry about what will happen to the economy if he has another four years of pissing contests.
“I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight. Brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
Asked how the briefer reacted, the source recalled he said something to the effect of, "Sir, we'll look into that."
Trump replied by asking incredulously how many hurricanes the U.S. could handle and reiterating his suggestion that the government intervene before they make landfall.
The briefer "was knocked back on his heels," the source in the room added. "You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f---? What do we do with this?'"
So many people here misunderstand the point of a primary. We need to be able to criticize the Democratic candidates right now. That's how we vet them to see who is best to try and win in 2020. My criticisms of Joe Biden are both because I think he'd be bad for the country and would be a dangerous risk of losing to Trump. He has a shitty record, he's losing his mental capacity to handle all of this, and he's only going to get worse over the next 15 months of campaigning. Tonight, he pulled a Hillary Clinton and publicly speculated about Barack Obama getting assassinated to score political points.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris supporters staged a walkout of the Sunrise Movement today for some reason, the same week that Harris went to the Hamptons to assure billionaires she's on her side. She's trying to wrestle the billionaires' support from Pete Buttigieg, who has courted them most effectively to this point. That's always something you want to see from the party that's supposed to be fighting economic inequality!
The 2016 election proved that a lot of polling data is a crock of shit at this point. Yet we still want to concern ourselves with based on the same polls that have proven to tell us a lot less than we thought they did.
So often the reflex to move to the middle with the candidate is one to "play it safe," to recline in the conventional wisdom that we are a nation of centrists and that centrism has the most mass appeal. I don't know how many cycles of us running out centrists we have to go through before people realize you can't do that every single time out. 2018 was one time where a wave of centrists got through because Trump was unpopular. The presidential election of 2020 isn't going to have the same dynamic, especially with the Democrats deciding to do nothing in the lead up to that election.
More importantly, if you manage to get a centrist Dem in there to "stop the bleeding," it's still going to fail to help most people. And that would put the 2024 election in major jeopardy, just as Obama failed to do enough from 2008 to 2016 to make "let's keep doing this!" a winning election strategy.
I only see one candidate capable of driving out the much-needed youth vote that Headache referenced upthread.
So many people here misunderstand the point of a primary. We need to be able to criticize the Democratic candidates right now. That's how we vet them to see who is best to try and win in 2020. My criticisms of Joe Biden are both because I think he'd be bad for the country and would be a dangerous risk of losing to Trump. He has a shitty record, he's losing his mental capacity to handle all of this, and he's only going to get worse over the next 15 months of campaigning. Tonight, he pulled a Hillary Clinton and publicly speculated about Barack Obama getting assassinated to score political points.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris supporters staged a walkout of the Sunrise Movement today for some reason, the same week that Harris went to the Hamptons to assure billionaires she's on her side. She's trying to wrestle the billionaires' support from Pete Buttigieg, who has courted them most effectively to this point. That's always something you want to see from the party that's supposed to be fighting economic inequality!
The 2016 election proved that a lot of polling data is a crock of shit at this point. Yet we still want to concern ourselves with based on the same polls that have proven to tell us a lot less than we thought they did.
So often the reflex to move to the middle with the candidate is one to "play it safe," to recline in the conventional wisdom that we are a nation of centrists and that centrism has the most mass appeal. I don't know how many cycles of us running out centrists we have to go through before people realize you can't do that every single time out. 2018 was one time where a wave of centrists got through because Trump was unpopular. The presidential election of 2020 isn't going to have the same dynamic, especially with the Democrats deciding to do nothing in the lead up to that election.
More importantly, if you manage to get a centrist Dem in there to "stop the bleeding," it's still going to fail to help most people. And that would put the 2024 election in major jeopardy, just as Obama failed to do enough from 2008 to 2016 to make "let's keep doing this!" a winning election strategy.
I only see one candidate capable of driving out the much-needed youth vote that Headache referenced upthread.
I keep thinking back to that line from Hillary's concession speech, that "the best days are still ahead of us" and how wrong that ended up being.
She meant like, waaaaay down the road I guess.
Indeed, Biden has lost support among Democrats who identify as either moderate or conservative. In June, roughly 40 percent of those voters said they backed Biden’s bid for the nomination. Since then, that number has dropped to 22 percent.
There are signs that moderate and conservative Democrats are beginning to gravitate toward Sanders and Warren. Sanders saw his support among those voters jump from 10 percent to 20 percent over the past two months, while backing for Warren rose from 6 percent to 16 percent.
Unrelated, but this is a fantastic ad. People of Iowa, if you can't get rid of Steve King, at last turf Joni Ernst.
https://twitter.com/FrankenforIowa/...19/8/26/1881478/-Franken-announces-Senate-run