Gene Hackman Fan posted:

table four wants a blt with the bs&t special

Al! posted:

[removes top single from stack i set on the table at the beginning of the meal while never breaking eye contact]

GalacticAcid posted:

Reconstruction has historically not been good for the Democrats.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

anyhow the democrats are a dead party and everyone should join the DSA

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

After the circus of the primary it's possible there's a bunch of people already registered and eager to vote for an anti establishment canidate. A presidential wave is really the only chance I'd think.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

uh reconstruction went great for them, in less than a decade after losing the loving civil war they had practically re-enslaved hundreds of thousands of black people and regained total control of the south

anyhow the democrats are a dead party and everyone should join the DSA

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/858007470073147393

remember guys

Al! posted:

do people actually do this btw, i've heard goons brag about it but never seen it in the wild

Raskolnikov38 posted:

uh reconstruction went great for them, in less than a decade after losing the loving civil war they had practically re-enslaved hundreds of thousands of black people and regained total control of the south

anyhow the democrats are a dead party and everyone should join the DSA

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

i'm all the people replying "the intercept?? really? was your account hacked? not clicking that"

GalacticAcid posted:

No, that was after Reconstruction my friend.

mormonpartyboat posted:

https://twitter.com/CEOSleepout/status/877812107168763904

Al! posted:

experience what

Condiv posted:

putincept? is the intercept actually materially connected to russia or are bad dems calling anyone who dares to question their beliefs russians?

quote:

Scott Dworkin, leader of the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, tweeted: “That’s a win for #theresistance. Both Tom Price and Mitt Romney carried #ga06 by 23%. @ossoff lost by 5%” (Dworkin also inexplicably added the hashtag “#TrumpRussia” at the end, which at this point is apparently just a physical reflex among certain Democrats).

Condiv posted:

putincept? is the intercept actually materially connected to russia or are bad dems calling anyone who dares to question their beliefs russians?

Condiv posted:

putincept? is the intercept actually materially connected to russia or are bad dems calling anyone who dares to question their beliefs russians?

Al! posted:

experience what

mormonpartyboat posted:

virtual poverty

Al! posted:

i think the reference is to how they burned their source, reality winner

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Condiv posted:

putincept? is the intercept actually materially connected to russia or are bad dems calling anyone who dares to question their beliefs russians?

quote:

Pontoni’s father, who’d come down to Georgia for the election, was worried. Every time he texted his son to check in, he received a discouraging response: “Ugh.”

By 9 p.m., Pontoni knew it was over.

Shortly thereafter, his father got another text. “They want me in the boiler room,” he told Pontoni’s stepmother. The young campaign manager was giving the important people in his life a heads-up that Ossoff had lost, well before CNN called the race.

Last fall, Pontoni managed Democrat Gretchen Driskell’s campaign against Michigan GOP Rep. Tim Walberg. She lost by 15 points. Up until that point, Pontoni wasn’t used to losing. He’d previously managed a successful county commission and state House race in his native Michigan.

But despite back-to-back losses, Pontoni’s now a man in high demand, with a bright future in a party that desperately needs fresh perspectives.

“Maybe he should go from this to running a presidential campaign,” said Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who worked on the Ossoff campaign. “He has the mettle to really do any type of race.”

quote:

Pontoni rejects the postelection criticism from groups such as MoveOn.org, which endorsed Ossoff but has said he should have gone after Handel on President Donald Trump and health care more aggressively.

“When you run on national issues that are inherently partisan, because they are being litigated by the two parties nationally, you make the race more partisan, and folks tend to go in the corners of their parties,” Pontoni said.

quote:

When Ossoff first called him for a job interview, Pontoni wasn’t prepared. There’d been a miscommunication about time zones.

“He woke me up. And I was not ready at all. I had no notes, I didn’t even have my laptop open,” Pontoni recalled.

“And he’s just grilling me with deep analytical questions like, ‘How much money do I have to raise? How many doors do I have to knock?’ All this stuff, like, ‘What do you think about investing in TV?’” he said.

By this point, Pontoni had powered up his laptop and was Googling gross ratings points in the Atlanta media market.

“I told him a lot on the call, ‘I don’t know, I’ll have to get back to you.’ But I guess the fact that I said ‘I don’t know’ a lot was one of the reasons he wanted to talk to me more,” Pontoni said. “He said a lot of campaign managers weren’t willing to admit that they didn’t know things.”

quote:

The first time he thought about winning was a few weeks before the April 18 jungle primary. He happened to be driving when the campaign received a poll that showed Ossoff at more than 40 percent.

Pontoni pulled over and cried.

mormonpartyboat posted:

homelessness simulator 2017

Willa Rogers posted:

the combo of greenwald & a media outlet that dares to call out dem corruption.

Bad dems, and the outlets that echo them, have cut off critiques from the left and that's been the case over the last decade or so. By marginalizing and minimizing those critiques bad dems can dismiss it by smearing it as putinesque or stealth-gop or infiltration by enemy forces--but they sound increasingly unhinged when they do so, and they further alienate potential voters or dem voters who are not happy with either the status quo or the party's tonedeaf actions.

mormonpartyboat posted:

ahahahahahahahaha

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/keenan-pontoni-jon-ossoff-democrats

SKULL.GIF posted:

Circus primary
Abandoned people starving for an anti-establishment outsider
Presidential wave

It's almost as if...

Venom Snake posted:

Greenwald sucks rear end

GalacticAcid posted:

Deep down, Mitt Romney is the professional Democrat's favorite politician.