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Terrifying Effigies posted:Probably the biggest knock against Harris' Vice-Presidency is that there's been no evidence of effort to try and grow her standing and political capital as a future leader in the Democratic Party. That may not entirely be on her, certainly the Biden administration has given her some thankless jobs like border security which were never going to result in a happy or successful resolution. It does place a lot of risk on what happens if Biden dies or becomes incapacitated though, overnight Harris is going to have to become the face of both the party and government and if they haven't built up public confidence in her then there's a greater chance of the GOP managing to sweep in on the next election under the "Dems in Disarray" banner. This is one of my biggest criticisms of Biden: during the 2020 election, there were all these quotes and stories from campaign staffers about how Biden would be a stable, technocratic, "don't rock the boat" president who would restore some sense of calm and stability to the White House while also raising up the next generation of Democratic candidates ahead of 2024. While he may have been the former, he sure as poo poo hasn't done the latter. Harris hardly conveys that she likes being vice president and doesn't have a public policy agenda or win that she can point to; Buttigieg seems like he's doing a decent job at his own secretariat role but he seems to be effectively marginalized in terms of being a potential national-level candidate. I've increasingly seen Biden as a self-centered egoist for seeking reelection to the highest office at 82 years old- an age when most people are talking about taking the car keys away from Dad- and he's done a drat good job of countering any opposition to him from would-be challengers. I know it's not 2016 anymore, but it still seems to me like Democratic strategists haven't learned to stop underestimating Trump when their own candidate is increasingly unpopular within his own party and has been battling low approval ratings for his entire presidency.
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We're so utterly hosed. We've got an octogenarian fascist and an octogenarian putz who no one is excited about who barely does anything to help anyone and whose accomplishments amount to "is doing ok supporting Ukraine" and "is trying to balance countering China while not alienating our greatest trading partner." We're so hosed.
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Nick Soapdish posted:RIP Rosalynn Carter James won't be far behind her surely.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:This is one of my biggest criticisms of Biden: during the 2020 election, there were all these quotes and stories from campaign staffers about how Biden would be a stable, technocratic, "don't rock the boat" president who would restore some sense of calm and stability to the White House while also raising up the next generation of Democratic candidates ahead of 2024. While he may have been the former, he sure as poo poo hasn't done the latter. Harris hardly conveys that she likes being vice president and doesn't have a public policy agenda or win that she can point to; Buttigieg seems like he's doing a decent job at his own secretariat role but he seems to be effectively marginalized in terms of being a potential national-level candidate. I've increasingly seen Biden as a self-centered egoist for seeking reelection to the highest office at 82 years old- an age when most people are talking about taking the car keys away from Dad- and he's done a drat good job of countering any opposition to him from would-be challengers. I know it's not 2016 anymore, but it still seems to me like Democratic strategists haven't learned to stop underestimating Trump when their own candidate is increasingly unpopular within his own party and has been battling low approval ratings for his entire presidency. Buttigieg probably could stand to get a bit more spotlight wrt his long term prospects but doing a functional job and staying scandal free for an entire administration is a pretty big deal for someone who is clearly going for 'boring stable competent' as his political profile. Kamala's camp has mostly been done in internally, though I'll note that the deluge of leaks about infighting largely stopped after 2021, though she still barely got a year out of the comms director she hired in the aftermath of that first 6 month period where her staff was spending half the day on the phone venting to reporters. idk if it is actually more functional now or if it just isn't leaking any more. Newsom is currently trying his hand at being a rising dem star and lol man I can not shake the impression that he's a california dem desantis, though he at least has some charisma and is pretty good on camera in a way that desantis can only dream of. strikes me as someone more likely to be a VP, but his ambitions seem to be solidly above that. I do wonder sometime how much dems are really hesitant about trying to anoint successors given how much of a complete failure that was with Hillary. After carpet bagging to NY and launching probably the most transparent effort ever to establish a base to springboard a presidential campaign off of (albeit the holiday parties the Clinton's held each year in NY were admittedly legendary), she spent about a decade jumping to the front of the line for various appointments. When you have a clear person lined up it discourages other good candidates from even bothering to try and the dems spent more than a decade setting up her eventual run and it not only didn't pay off it put trump in office. Bored As gently caress posted:We're so utterly hosed. We've got an octogenarian fascist and an octogenarian putz who no one is excited about who barely does anything to help anyone and whose accomplishments amount to "is doing ok supporting Ukraine" and "is trying to balance countering China while not alienating our greatest trading partner." bold new US strategy: convince china's octogenarian's of the virtues of rule by octogenarians Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Nov 19, 2023 |
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Probably the biggest knock against Harris' Vice-Presidency is that there's been no evidence of effort to try and grow her standing and political capital as a future leader in the Democratic Party. That may not entirely be on her, certainly the Biden administration has given her some thankless jobs like border security which were never going to result in a happy or successful resolution. It does place a lot of risk on what happens if Biden dies or becomes incapacitated though, overnight Harris is going to have to become the face of both the party and government and if they haven't built up public confidence in her then there's a greater chance of the GOP managing to sweep in on the next election under the "Dems in Disarray" banner. Yeah, and I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Biden and his people fumbling this one when they have Biden’s own time in the Obama administration as a model. I’m not saying that it was perfect, but it’s better than what they’ve got going on now.
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:hella grift off the lumpenazitariat Just couldn't let this drift off with the posts... wonderful. Lumpy az, lumpenproletariat, no small resonance with dependapottomi. Love this place.
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TheWeedNumber posted:Oh I remember these comics. Lol If you only read C&H as a kid, reread them. It's a whole different thing. I put this reading recommendation on par with Command and Control.
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Bored As gently caress posted:We're so utterly hosed. We've got an octogenarian fascist and an octogenarian putz who no one is excited about who barely does anything to help anyone and whose accomplishments amount to "is doing ok supporting Ukraine" and "is trying to balance countering China while not alienating our greatest trading partner." Yes, we are hosed, if people even here don't realize we have made progress on equality that hasn't been seen in decades, and the economy did way better than anywhere else in developed world.
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OddObserver posted:Yes, we are hosed, if people even here don't realize we have made progress on equality that hasn't been seen in decades, and the economy did way better than anywhere else in developed world. Hmm yea no reason to think those trends have started to reverse in the past 2-3 years as my hospital gets hit with anti trans panic bomb threats for the nth time this year
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Godholio posted:If you only read C&H as a kid, reread them. It's a whole different thing. Yes this
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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1726354676189147489?t=qeNodErnS7O_YZZ40_Dxag&s=19 RIP to a real one. I had no idea he was still alive. I know Richard Jordan passed decades ago.
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Godholio posted:If you only read C&H as a kid, reread them. It's a whole different thing. I cannot like this post hard enough
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1726354676189147489?t=qeNodErnS7O_YZZ40_Dxag&s=19 "Andrei, you've lost ANOTHER actor?"
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1726354676189147489?t=qeNodErnS7O_YZZ40_Dxag&s=19 Oh drat, I too thought he passed ages ago. Was watching The Mighty Ducks last night, and my wife and I just traded quotes from Red October whenever he was on screen.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Oh drat, I too thought he passed ages ago. Was watching The Mighty Ducks last night, and my wife and I just traded quotes from Red October whenever he was on screen. I just watched the Mighty Ducks for the first time last month (I didn't watch a lot of kids stuff growing up). I don't get the hype. I know it's a kids movie, but I don't get how it was so popular when I was a kid.
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OddObserver posted:Yes, we are hosed, if people even here don't realize we have made progress on equality that hasn't been seen in decades, and the economy did way better than anywhere else in developed world. Oh? The economy is doing well you say? The minimal progress on equality has led to a bunch of regressive states making themselves even more hostile to already alienated social groups, and no national republican leaders are doing great by promising to reverse all that. Progress is progress but its not wholistic systemic progress, its local gains. Those local gains need to be reinforced and expanded on as best we can and the Democratic party is certainly not at all interested in doing that so its up to local groups to pick up the slack.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I just watched the Mighty Ducks for the first time last month (I didn't watch a lot of kids stuff growing up). I don't get the hype. I know it's a kids movie, but I don't get how it was so popular when I was a kid. I just remember the mighty ducks being cool af. Never had a desire to rewatch it though as an adult.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:This is one of my biggest criticisms of Biden: during the 2020 election, there were all these quotes and stories from campaign staffers about how Biden would be a stable, technocratic, "don't rock the boat" president who would restore some sense of calm and stability to the White House while also raising up the next generation of Democratic candidates ahead of 2024. While he may have been the former, he sure as poo poo hasn't done the latter. this is the result of spending 8 years clearing the field for Hillary combined with an entire generation of Democrat politicians getting annihilated as the Dems lost 1000 seats across the country during Obama's presidency. the same people are in charge and they have no desire to run or fund candidates down ballot that aren't test tube center-right clones and have confused "good at fundraising" with "can win". none of them care as long as they can spend $25 million on deep blue TV buys that will assure them a cushy job with a media firm when they tire of the consultant rat race. oh yeah the Democrats stalwart ally AIPAC is going to do everything possible to get Republicans elected. Proud Christian Mom fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Nov 20, 2023 |
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bulletsponge13 posted:I just watched the Mighty Ducks for the first time last month (I didn't watch a lot of kids stuff growing up). I don't get the hype. I know it's a kids movie, but I don't get how it was so popular when I was a kid. You had to be there bro.
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FrozenVent posted:You had to be there bro. I graduated in 2018, my college’s hockey team would roll through campus on rollerblades with duck calls and whistles in a Flying V to announce their hockey games 
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bulletsponge13 posted:I just watched the Mighty Ducks for the first time last month (I didn't watch a lot of kids stuff growing up). I don't get the hype. I know it's a kids movie, but I don't get how it was so popular when I was a kid. I grew up in an area where hockey is extremely popular, and my parents are Canadian so it was a hit in our household for obvious reasons. Beyond that? Unless you have any kind of nostalgia for it, it isn't a must watch or anything. It's a bog standard kids sports movie. Though my wife did buy me a pretty sweet Ducks/Conway sweater that I wear to hockey games if my team isn't in town, and I constantly get compliments for it. FrozenVent posted:You had to be there bro. Yeah pretty much this.
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The Mighty Ducks cartoon, in which anthropomorphic ducks who played hockey during the day were masked crime fighters at night was better than the Mighty Ducks movie.  Don't @ me.
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Arrath posted:The Mighty Ducks cartoon, in which anthropomorphic ducks who played hockey during the day were masked crime fighters at night was better than the Mighty Ducks movie. Agreed tho.
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Arrath posted:The Mighty Ducks cartoon, in which anthropomorphic ducks who played hockey during the day were masked crime fighters at night was better than the Mighty Ducks movie. What the poo poo this is real?
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FrozenVent posted:What the poo poo this is real? The 90s man, the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Ducks:_The_Animated_Series
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Arrath posted:The Mighty Ducks cartoon, in which anthropomorphic ducks who played hockey during the day were masked crime fighters at night was better than the Mighty Ducks movie. I will @ you to tell you that you are correct.
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never change, wikipedia.quote:Unlike the films and the hockey teams, the show was about a team of anthropomorphic hockey-playing ducks.
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Didn't they have blasters that shot, like, energy pucks or something? FrozenVent posted:You had to be there bro.
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shame on an IGA posted:never change, wikipedia. TBF, this confused the gently caress outta me as a kid.
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That Works posted:Upside is you get the have the legit joy of reading Calvin and Hobbes It’s was interesting growing up ordering the new C&H books from the book fair each year, and one collection had author notes explaining his licensing fight with his syndicate & how much he refused to have crappy merchandise just for money, and decades later he’s stuck with it even though any minute he could pick up the phone with Disney & probably pocket nine figures. Terrifying Effigies posted:The 90s man, the 90s. In one of the great NHL Sega Genesis games you could make players so my five guys on the Ducks were named after the cartoon, except I couldn’t figure out how to make a goalie so I’d trade for the Chicago Blackhawks elite guy. So my powerhouse team consisted of Wildwing Flashblade, Mallory McMallard, and Ed Belfour.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Didn't they have blasters that shot, like, energy pucks or something? Straight up, it was wild.
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Arrath posted:Straight up, it was wild. No, that's Minnesota. vvv 
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ZombieApostate posted:No, that's Minnesota. No, that was North Stars.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:It’s was interesting growing up ordering the new C&H books from the book fair each year, and one collection had author notes explaining his licensing fight with his syndicate & how much he refused to have crappy merchandise just for money, and decades later he’s stuck with it even though any minute he could pick up the phone with Disney & probably pocket nine figures. Hah, I had this same collection. Watterson really is too good for us.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Hah, I had this same collection. Watterson really is too good for us. Oh yeah was bummed when he retired but in retrospect gotta respect him for going out on top rather than accepting inferior output, amazing respect for his audience. Also glad he quietly lives his life popping up here and there but feels no need to embarrass himself by getting addicted to social media & trying to have hot takes on everything like Stephen King.
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