Fullhouse posted:

every movie villain who wants to save the planet by literally decimating the population is right

logikv9 posted:

even richmond valentine??

Fullhouse posted:

every movie villain who wants to save the planet by literally decimating the population is right

Serf posted:

I mean when I hear the slogan "make america great again" I think of the 50s because of how that era has been idealized to near-mythical standards. the baby boomers were kids then, and it was a time between the war and the tumultuous 60s and 70s, and then the worst excesses by late capitalism of the 80s and 90s and beyond. the 50s are depicted as this incredibly simple and idyllic era of american history that really only existed for "middle-class" white people

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While I’d never claim that unseating an incumbent governor with high polling would be easy, Hogan’s alleged inevitability needs a reality check. Maryland is a state where Hillary Clinton swept the floor by 26 points. It's a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two-to-one. Let’s be clear: Larry Hogan can be beat.

Hogan won the governorship in 2014 under uniquely favorable circumstances. His six-point victory was facilitated in part by Democrats taking the race for granted: They waged a pitifully weak campaign effort for an uninspiring and often invisible candidate. The result was a precipitous decrease in statewide voter turnout, particularly in counties that are critical for Democratic wins. Baltimore City turned out 36 percent of voters in 2014, 9 percent fewer than in 2010. Likewise, in Prince George’s County, turnout dropped by 7 percent, and in Montgomery County, by 12 percent.

There’s good reason to suspect the 2018 campaign season will not much resemble the generally muted 2014 contest. For starters, there’s a man named Donald Trump who’s set to take over the White House later this month. He’ll be starting his presidency with a stunningly low approval rating, and the 2018 midterms will be the first opportunity Americans generally, and Democrats particularly, will have to express their displeasure at the ballot box. What’s more, with the federal government under GOP control, Democrats will be focusing more on winning state governments than they have in the recent past. Thirty-six gubernatorial seats up are for grabs in 2018, and as political writer Greg Sargent pointed out, many states in which Republicans are defending governorships are ones that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton recently won.

GalacticAcid posted:

Larry Hogan Can Be Beat, by Rachel Cohen for The American Prospect.


lol they already want to lay down and die, loving pathetic

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When Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced in mid-December that he was jumping into the race for Democratic National Committee chair, analysts immediately began to speculate what his motivations could be for challenging Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison. Ellison had already been in the race for a month, and had received diverse endorsements from the AFL-CIO, Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer, among many others. Was the White House putting Perez up to this, nervous about a key Sanders supporter leading the party? Was this about preserving support from billionaire donors like Haim Saban, who said electing Ellison would be a “disaster” for Democrats?

And, wait, wasn’t Perez—a former Maryland state official and a longtime resident of the D.C. suburbs—considering a 2018 run against Maryland’s Republican governor Larry Hogan? Wouldn’t this rising political star’s career be better served by making a blue state blue again?

Last month, when I started asking people around D.C. this question, I got two somewhat contradictory responses. First, I’d invariably be asked if I had seen Larry Hogan’s approval ratings. Yes, I knew that the Republican governor currently boasted a 71 percent approval—his popularity was something The Washington Post reminded readers of again and again. But when I’d ask them what they thought Hogan’s biggest accomplishments were, their responses would quickly become vague. “Look … he can’t be beat,” they’d insist. “He’s moderate and just too well-liked.”

Fullhouse posted:

it was great for the middle class because labor was the strongest it has ever been in this country and there was high demand for it at all levels

high demand because minorities were excluded from it and because we purged a few hundred thousand working-age kids in the war and because of the sudden expansion of the global American empire, but still

loquacius posted:

Bourbon is really good by itself and I don't understand why a region of the country known for producing really good liquor would invent a signature drink where you load that liquor down with a bunch of sugar

GalacticAcid posted:

yes

Joementum posted:

GalacticAcid posted:

yes

GalacticAcid posted:

Larry Hogan Can Be Beat, by Rachel Cohen for The American Prospect.


lol they already want to lay down and die, loving pathetic

Democrazy posted:

Even if pumping Tom Perez is a little silly, this article certainly isn't entirely wrong. Politics is as national as it ever has been, and statewide offices are a great way for the Democrats to rebuild their bench.

The main problem is that Larry Hogan is awful in ways that are harder to pin down. He has a lot of "common sense" proposals about shortening the school year to help his resort-owning friends and about taking money away from transit to pay for rural roads. He also stayed away from Donald Trump, which helped him. It will be a slog for Dems, certainly.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/immolations/status/817029176117104640

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/immolations/status/817029176117104640

Grondoth posted:

Clinton's personality cult will baffle me until I die.

Grondoth posted:

Clinton's personality cult will baffle me until I die.

Thoguh posted:

The gently caress is going on in Wyoming?

Democrazy posted:

Clinton is inspiring to many women who felt politically empowered by her career.

My source: many women who have said this to me.

bump_fn posted:

I can't keep up w this thread but did anyone post this yet

https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/817013818026921984

LGD posted:

In addition to the oil money (as previously mentioned), Jackson Hole and the surrounding area cater heavily to wealthy individuals. It's literally the most economically unequal city in America. People like Terry Mcauliffe and his family vacation at ridiculous luxury dude ranches out there, where the rooms in your $texas/week cabin are cleaned by underemployed graduate students (my cousin did this for a while). Ski, shoot skeet, get taught to play cowboy by professionals, enjoy fabulous white water rafting, enjoy the best national parks in the country, etc., and then end each day with fabulous gourmet meals. That's vacation of course, but it doesn't take that many ultra-high net worth individuals staying to get pretty ludicrous disparities relative to other states given Wyoming's population.


If you haven't been to that area you should definitely go- you're not going to get anywhere near the same experience as the ultra-rich, but the area is absurdly beautiful and it's not exactly expensive to go day hiking in the Grand Tetons (just watch for bears/moose).

loquacius posted:

It did, I think it might have been decided that this was Fake News though???

zegermans posted:

There's something to be said about northern states that turned up their noses at the south when they had (and still have) the same level of segregation, just not officially codified into law.

paranoid randroid posted:

whom the frick is Dan Nainan

Grondoth posted:

Clinton's personality cult will baffle me until I die.

bump_fn posted:

I can't keep up w this thread but did anyone post this yet

https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/817013818026921984

Serf posted:

listening to this guy's stand up absolutely bomb on chapo trap house fuckin ruined me. I laughed so hard I got dizzy

GalacticAcid posted:

yes

The Muppets On PCP posted:

i used to work with a guy who was a media adviser to the clinton white house in the 90s and during the 08 primaries slowly turned into lope de aguirre thinking he'd get a new gig with the missus in charge