Vasudus posted:

If I had to guess, he promised her voter outreach thing a shitload of money. Which amusingly if it were true, is one of the few things he's done with his money that actually help the party.

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/leninology/status/1234161689966321667

Now isnt that weird

facialimpediment posted:

If you want (lol) a paragraph that basically explains how the current Democratic electorate is thinking:

https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1235055353076649984

not caring here posted:

You know, if old Bloomberg really wanted to get rid of trump, it'd be easier to just pay him a billion dollars cold hard cash.

That fat orange gently caress would drop the presidency like a bad habit with that dangled on a hook. I bet he's never had access to that kind of actual cash in his life and he could just gently caress off to an island without extradition and tweet mad poo poo all day. Ditch his family like a bad smell, except for his daughter, whom he'd probably give a bad smell.

Woofer posted:

If it makes it easier, the decision will probably be made for you eventually when we shut down all incoming traffic from foreign countries for “public safety.”

Which I’m actually surprised hasn’t been publicly floated as an idea (right?).

facialimpediment posted:

So in the middle of all this poo poo, and the Saudi King's death/not-death/undeath, Saudi is basically declaring an all-out oil price war, and OPEC has likely broken down.

https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1236430793838342144

Basically, the global economies are looking so lovely that the oil producers want to make as much sales as possible, even if that means selling a barrel of crude for as low as $20. That's great for gas prices, but sends a massive signal to Wall Street and businesses that poo poo is very, very bad and won't improve anytime soon.

Stock futures are down another 900. Oil is down 31%.

facialimpediment posted:

Close enough. If Saudi can pump out barrels and get them to us at ~$20 a barrel, and our internal production costs are close to ~$30 (cursory google searches' best-case scenario), there's no point in internally producing the oil anymore.

That's why the fracking boom upended OPEC and traditional oil markets so much. Fracking allowed us to internally produce barrels of oil so drat cheaply that we no longer really gave a poo poo what OPEC fixed their prices at. So, OPEC keeps cutting prices, trying to drive the frackers out of business, but instead the frackers keep cutting their production costs.

The trouble is that I have no idea how much money the frackers have in reserve, if they have to mothball equipment. One way or another, that likely leads to a shitload of laid-off oil workers until oil prices come back up.

Proud Christian Mom posted:

member of rich family tests positive for covid19, family self quarantines.

except for last night, when two of them just couldn't miss the Daddy/Daughter dance at the Ritz Carlton

https://twitter.com/alexiszotos/status/1236798227346833408?s=20

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

OTOH, if things are as dire as you fear, then it may just be the tipping point needed to break this new Gilded Age.

PookBear posted:

Yeah I supported warren as well, largely because I think AOC's approach to take lead pipes to kneecaps from inside the dem party and primarying centrists is better than bernie's approach of not joining the dem party.

bird cooch posted:

Same! I want to see a movement rise up so that there is some power in the institutions when we get a president. That's what it takes to actually make stuff happen.

I like technocrats.

joat mon posted:

Totally. Just please help to make sure those not-you people who are get[ting] invasive 'maybe i just won't vote' thoughts don't forget to put on their big boy/big girl pants come Nov. 3.

bird cooch posted:

I'm not familiar with that part of the us, I just drive through.

people are really losing their poo poo all over the forums and the rest of the internet tonight

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Cheeto Benito thanks you for your support.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

I'd be hesitant saying that the GOP "figured this all out" considering their utter inability to pass a single goddamn bill other than tax cuts when they had the Presidency and both houses of Congress. GOP in general faces much different electoral, funding, and media dynamics than the Dems and in a lot of ways it's an apples and oranges comparison. Democratic voters are not Republican voters, even if sometimes you have to squint.

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

but how will the mets disappoint me unless they play

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Jesus, an oil rig just had a confirmed case. Everyone on there is gonna get it.

Acebuckeye13 posted:

McConnell what the gently caress

https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1238126303238410243?s=20

Like it's one thing to go "Well we don't like the Democratic Bill," but the response to that is to make your own, worse bill and force them to negotiate, not to gently caress off for a week and a half and say you'll get back to it later

CommieGIR posted:

https://twitter.com/TinkerSec/status/1238155870384664578?s=19

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

Carnival Rider posted:

Friend with Diabetes and a lot of health issues has a magical double pneumonia and all the corona symptoms. Can’t get a corona test because the state isn’t breaking from CDC requirement for contact with someone with it.