Godholio posted:

"Here. 800mg Motrin."

As Nero Danced posted:

Kid hasn't even hit puberty yet but somehow he got a stripper knocked up.

Vasudus posted:

he doesn't even have to wait for the va to kill him

Vasudus posted:

he doesn't even have to wait for the va to kill him

Vasudus posted:

he doesn't even have to wait for the va to kill him

Vasudus posted:

he doesn't even have to wait for the va to kill him

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What’s crazy is that no one has even declared yet, and people are already tearing each other apart over the candidates that don’t exist yet. Remember Beto O’Rourke, the cool dad from Texas who took America by storm and that everyone fell in love with? It wasn’t even a month after he lost his challenge to world champion Grandpa Monster impersonator Ted Cruz that Bernie stans were writing up attacks on him saying he’s an evil corporate shill and eats puppies and stuff. One would think they would have been concerned about that during the midterm election, but they weren’t. Some of them were even pulling for him to win. Yet something changed. I don’t want to get all on a conspiracy kick, but I think it was because he was doing about as well as Bernie was in early candidate polls. I’m not going to say that’s what it was, but that’s what it was.

Of course there’s Elizabeth Warren and her likability. Yes. Her likability. I think we invented that word just for Hillary Clinton because no one in history before her was measured on that scale. Sure, people have said they like candidates who they feel “they could have a beer with,” but at the same time we have elected some real assholes. Nixon looked like a Scooby Doo villain wearing a Nixon mask, had the charm of pudding skin, and we elected him twice. George H.W. Bush was as fun as getting socks for Christmas. If you go back further in the past Andrew Jackson was objectively an abusive rear end in a top hat even by contemporary standards and Andrew Johnson was impeached by his own party. Likability isn’t that much of an issue unless you happen to be a woman I guess.

Then there’s the people who hate Kamala Harris because she was a district attorney, the people who hate Biden because of the Anita Hill hearings, some hate Michael Bloomberg who’s well... Michael Bloomberg. Some hate Corey Booker because he groped a girl in 1992, and then there’s Bernie, who had to apologize to his 2016 campaign staff because of sexual harassment some endured. There’s others people are talking about, like Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro, John Kerry, and Sherrod Brown. The only one whose buzz that isn’t negative so far is Brown because he has the name recognition of any randomly selected 15th-century Doge of Venice.

Seriously though, people are already tearing each other apart saying they won’t vote for a woman, or a white man, a “corporate Democrat,” or Bernie under any circumstances. They’re already disputing whether economic issues are more important than social issues; they’re fighting over what counts as being a real progressive, fighting over who is more electable. Mind you, literally no one has even declared they’re running yet and we’re already rehashing all the same poo poo that made the 2016 election so god-awfully divisive.

This election is gonna suck worse than the last presidential election because way too many people see this as 2016 Election II: The Purge. They’re treating it as a choice between Bernie or Hillary and are bringing every bit of bad blood and old feuds into an election that might not have either one of them running in it. Yes, it’s important to have a good candidate with strong policies and a positive, progressive vision come out of the Democratic primary, but we’re setting ourselves up early for a candidate already wounded from a brutal knife fight over petty measurements of purity and tribalism. Unless we tell these people that we aren’t here for their crap, and focus on building a coalition of likeminded people to keep the election positive and clean we’re going to end up more divided and wounded than we were going into it. The 2020 election is bigger than not getting everything thing you want out of it and flipping over the table out of spite and kneecapping everyone on the way out. I’m just not hopeful we’re going to realize that.

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focus on building a coalition of likeminded people to keep the election positive and clean we’re going to end up more divided and wounded than we were going into it. The 2020 election is bigger than not getting everything thing you want out of it and flipping over the table out of spite and kneecapping everyone on the way out. I’m just not hopeful we’re going to realize that.

my kinda ape posted:

I'm going to be honest whoever wrote that sounds like a loving idiot

Vasudus posted:

he doesn't even have to wait for the va to kill him

my kinda ape posted:

The whole point of the primary is to fight it out and choose the best candidate. Part of that is weeding out bad candidates by pointing out that they suck for various reasons. If you choose a bad candidate for the election then...they lose, as we have so painfully found out.

The very fact that they can't understand why people would want Beto to win in the election against Cruz and not want him to be president when there are better choices available is lol

Eej posted:

https://twitter.com/KristySwansonXO/status/1083891186656411648?s=19

Stultus Maximus posted:

I was reading it less as "we shouldn't have primary fights" and more a warning against the extreme toxicity of the Bernie vs Hillary fight, and the continued relitigation of the election years later with no actual new information and no resolution - and no point. Against using AOC and Warren and whoever else as avatars in an angry and ultimately useless ideological fight.

Eej posted:

https://twitter.com/KristySwansonXO/status/1083891186656411648?s=19

Eej posted:

There's already a chorus of people saying Kamala Harris should be supported as a candidate and that being a cop makes her even better

The Iron Rose posted:

She wasn't even a cop! She was a district attorney. Are we calling prosecutors class traitors now? Good grief.

I haven't even decided who I'm going to support - the primaries haven't happened yet! But man am I ever concerned that a vicious, contentious primary is just going to sow more division in the Democratic party and I hope whoever the eventual nominee is we all come together to support them and pull that voting lever, rather than relatively minor ideological disagreement let Trump win a second term.

Eej posted:

https://twitter.com/KristySwansonXO/status/1083891186656411648?s=19

The Iron Rose posted:

She wasn't even a cop! She was a district attorney. Are we calling prosecutors class traitors now? Good grief.

I haven't even decided who I'm going to support - the primaries haven't happened yet! But man am I ever concerned that a vicious, contentious primary is just going to sow more division in the Democratic party and I hope whoever the eventual nominee is we all come together to support them and pull that voting lever, rather than relatively minor ideological disagreement let Trump win a second term.

E: This includes Warren whose policy I like but personally I think she's not the sharpest and Gabbard who I called a traitor in ~2015 for sucking up to Al-Assad, but tbh she can thank Trump for that no longer being disqualifying.

The Iron Rose posted:

She wasn't even a cop! She was a district attorney. Are we calling prosecutors class traitors now?

The Iron Rose posted:

She wasn't even a cop! She was a district attorney. Are we calling prosecutors class traitors now?

The Iron Rose posted:

She wasn't even a cop! She was a district attorney. Are we calling prosecutors class traitors now? Good grief.

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Bolow posted:

Cop Adjacent, guillotine

Viva Miriya posted:

45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:

It depends entirely on the types of cases they want to pursue and her record on this isn't good.

TF CURES GENERATOR posted:

Would she be worse than Trump? No?