axelord posted:

They will win seats in the House but not enough to get a majority and lose seats in the Senate.

The GOP will be stronger than before, but the Democrats will claim a moral victory.

Grouchio posted:

Mister Facetious posted:

The centrist part of me is asking if he's at least saying it sarcastically.

joepinetree posted:

Ignoring all the shitpost for a bit, I saw this today:

https://news.vice.com/story/podcasts-are-becoming-the-lefts-right-wing-talk-radio

The story itself is pretty bland and nothing new for most of us. But here's the interesting passage:


Notable because:
- NRCC is using language that centrist democrats created to smear the left ("Bro").
- NRCC is grouping everyone from Ossoff to Pod Save America with Chapo

shrike82 posted:

I voted Bernie then Trump last year, and I'll happily do it in 2020 if the Dems run "Wall Street" Booker or "Tough on Crime" Harris.

I look forward to seeing people like Condiv spend the next 4 years posting about lovely black comedians and then vote for a neoliberal.

And why are you guys having a collective meltdown about Trevor Noah. He's not American and doesn't have the right to vote here. Start a petition to get him deported if you feel so strongly about it.

business hammocks posted:

WHY CAN'T I TELL IF THIS IS REAL I AM GOING INSANE

Bro Dad posted:

Ze Pollack posted:

she'd probably have eked out a nailbiter win against jeb! because they're equally hollowed out shells of ambition who viewed feigning enough humanity to get people to vote for them as an irritating chore rather than a necessity.

Ze Pollack posted:

have you honestly been so broken by the election that you think comparing someone to JEB! is ever a point in their favor

Mantis42 posted:

The only person who can save the Democrats is the man they once considered their biggest enemy. Draft JEB! 2020

steinrokkan posted:

Is this your gimmick now, calling Americans dumb and saying they deserve Trump?

Majorian posted:

Ken Jennings is the greatest living human being, friends:

https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/905195058793611264

InnercityGriot posted:

The dirty secret is that this is the actual good thread.

Calibanibal posted:

im the corncob

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

Even as a centrist as I am this is a new level of lovely.


It does appear the biggest divide is going to be for support of single payer. It'll be interesting to see if dems openly supporting it succeeded in 2018. Will Tom Perez play favorites based on this issue do you think?

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

I haven't seen any indication that the DNC plans to support any tax plan. Can you show me what is making you think this way? Also, the DNC is going to be a pretty critical component of success whether you want them to be or not.

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

Yeah, that's kinda the point of the thread. Replace the members of the DNC, but I doubt you are going to replace the DNC by 2018. In the mean time it may be useful to know what they plan to do in 2018 as far as funding candidates, and who they are likely to favor. no?


Got it, you have no actual information to base this opinion on, and are just poo poo posting. Thanks.

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

I know nothing of Neera Tanden, should I?

joepinetree posted:

I think an underrated part of all of this was that Hillary was clearly positioning herself to run to the right of Obama before Sanders' involvement in the primary. As late as 2014 she was hammering Obama on Iran and immigration. A lot of the hate is probably her having to defend her left flank.

steinrokkan posted:

I've already incorporated the loam thread into my axis of evil.

C. Everett Koop posted:

Accessibility isn't the issue it was 30 years ago. PBS did a service then, it's obsolete now.

The less Jack Black on any screen, mine or otherwise, the better.

In my more cynical moods, I've thought that Fred Rogers did a disservice by teaching children that they are loved in a cold, unforgiving world and that by pulling the wool over their eyes he created adults who weren't fully mentally equipped to handle reality, who had their own children and the cycle continued.

I really don't like the idea that Mr. Rogers was Always Bad but gently caress if it ain't starting to come true...

shrike82 posted:

And for all the rhetoric, leftists are going to bend the knee in 2020 and vote for Harris and Booker.