Terrorism is very bad, and that's why we're partnering with our friends the Saudis to

 

 

e: seriously though, praising ISIS because they killed innocent Iranians instead of innocent Kurds or Syrians or Iraqis is absolutely disgusting and if the GOP had any sort of morality left, they'd drum him out of the party today.

Edited June 12, 20178 yr by StrangeSox

Terrorism is very bad, and that's why we're partnering with our friends the Saudis to

 

 

e: seriously though, praising ISIS because they killed innocent Iranians instead of innocent Kurds or Syrians or Iraqis is absolutely disgusting and if the GOP had any sort of morality left, they'd drum him out of the party today.

 

 

A sitting congressman called for supporting ISIS and it's not even making the news. Your link on here was the first I heard about it.

 

I would assume he's not the only conservative getting excited about dead Iranians.

 

That same California Congressman might have more ties to Russia than the "Trump Seven."

So, I see Bernie is criticizing the Democratic party again and people keep bringing up Corbyn.

 

Has a single Bernie candidate won a contested election? Teachout didn't, Thompson didn't, Mello didn't, Quist didn't, etc. It's almost like he's the kiss of death. And he didn't get the popular vote in his election either.

 

Meanwhile, the one that he derided in Ossoff has the best shot.

 

Bernie is stellar for moral victories, but until he can start closing I would like to hear him stop being sanctimonious.

Corbyn also got about 100x the s*** from both the media and his own party that Bernie did, and he still managed to win party leadership and make a huge turnaround for the whole labour party.

The Democratic party should not be criticized. They are doing really good right now.

The Democratic party should not be criticized. They are doing really good right now.

 

They 100% deserve to be criticized.

 

Bernie deserves some of that criticism and is in no real position to try and act like only his movement can produce results.

Democratic Party is still sort of garbage but Bernie isn't a panacea. Corbyn showed the potential behind energizing a large youth vote behind a progressive/leftist platform with a real vision for the future, and that's something Democrats need to seriously look at going into the 2018 and 2020 elections. That's a good strategy for Democrats to take in a lot of places. Overall, though, if they take back a majority in the House or Senate, they're going to have to bring along blue dogs and suburban neoliberal democrats with them.

 

e: they're also two distinct political systems with substantially different structures and political histories and cultures. I don't think Corbyn's platform would work too well in much of the US.

 

e2: I think more centrist dems have a decent counterpoint, too, when you look at France. Corbyn had a very strong showing, but ultimately, he didn't win. Macron not only won the Presidency, his newly created political party took a large majority of the parliament.

Edited June 12, 20178 yr by StrangeSox

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option...p;jumival=19310

Working Class vs. Wall Street Dems

 

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option...p;jumival=19321

Dems' neo-liberalism cannot defeat Trumpism

 

 

The question is, without the Fillon scandal...would Macron's election have been possible?

 

Not only that, but the pushback against Trump's proxy in LePen, whereas six months ago (before everyone had time to study Trump) the mood was much different globally and in Europe, in particular. These rapidly shifting winds almost caught May unaware...she's barely hanging on by a thread, as it stands.

Edited June 13, 20178 yr by caulfield12

Report: The Cost of Protecting Education Secretary DeVos: $1M/Month

I wonder how the kids feel being called "snowflakes" and I wonder how the parents who've spoiled little Jane and Johnny feel about their precious ones being called snowflakes.

 

How did we create this generation that doesn't want to offend anybody and this generation that thinks comedians are bad cause they offend people?

We didn't, so please stop generalizing.

 

And if we're going to generalize, the biggest snowflakes are the GOP right now.

We didn't, so please stop generalizing.

 

And if we're going to generalize, the biggest snowflakes are the GOP right now.

Truest truth to ever truth

I'm not sure how you take a tweet making fun of older conservatives whining about a Shakespeare play and turn it into "kids these days!" but greg, uh, finds a way.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...y-losing-215271

 

As good a chance as any to be the next president...Jason Kander of Missouri

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...y-losing-215271

 

As good a chance as any to be the next president...Jason Kander of Missouri

 

Jason is pretty electric, but he would need another election cycle.

We're working our OSSES OFF here in GA6, but I'm not confident Ossoff wins this race, even though he's been ahead in every single poll. I think the baseball shooting may have done just enough damage to flip what was already going to be an insanely close race, but dammit I hope I'm wrong. In any case, three more days of knocking doors!

We're working our OSSES OFF here in GA6, but I'm not confident Ossoff wins this race, even though he's been ahead in every single poll. I think the baseball shooting may have done just enough damage to flip what was already going to be an insanely close race, but dammit I hope I'm wrong. In any case, three more days of knocking doors!

 

One of the latest polls was +2 for Ossoff with margin of error at +/-3.5%...seems the final ten day trend is towards Handel, despite him peeling off 33% of Dem/Independent Trump voters from November.

GA-6 detailed analysis

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/18/g...f-handel-239650

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/rep-eric-swalwell...topstories.html

Calif. Rep goes phone banking for Ossoff

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/18/politics/kfi...a-ad/index.html

Conservative PAC uses extremely out of context quotes from Dreams of My Father to suppress African American vote in GA-6

 

Edited June 19, 20178 yr by caulfield12

I was so confident prior to last week's shooting. Now I'm 100% expecting a loss. All the numbers are going the wrong direction.

 

Thank you, lunatic-left.

So two weeks of Democratic infighting nearly guaranteed if they lose despite spending nearly $30 million by the end of the campaign. The Sanders Wing will argue he was too plain vanilla, inoffensive and didn't fight hard enough for progressive issues so as not to offend mostly conservative constituents in that particular district.

 

Hopefully the Obama "out of context" attack ads end up backfiring.

Edited June 19, 20178 yr by caulfield12

So two weeks of Democratic infighting nearly guaranteed if they lose despite spending nearly $30 million by the end of the campaign.

 

Hopefully the Obama "out of context" attack ads end up backfiring.

 

I can't wait to hear about how Ossoff wasn't progressive enough

I can't wait to hear about how Ossoff wasn't progressive enough

which will piss me off to no end, because anyone who says that knows nothing about the demographics of this district. But it's a fun headline!

So two weeks of Democratic infighting nearly guaranteed if they lose despite spending nearly $30 million by the end of the campaign. The Sanders Wing will argue he was too plain vanilla, inoffensive and didn't fight hard enough for progressive issues so as not to offend mostly conservative constituents in that particular district.

 

Hopefully the Obama "out of context" attack ads end up backfiring.

All we can do is hope our massive ground game and GOTV effort is enough to outweigh the BS. They timed all of this brilliantly though, down to the fact that both elections took place after holiday weekends, so as to hurt the effectiveness of canvassing and GOTV. People are none to pleased to talk to folks on Easter or Father's Day. Gotta hand it to the GOP, they're brilliantly conniving.

 

Fortunately, what we're doing is working, it's just a matter of if it'll be enough. There's a definite hidden Ossoff vote, but probably not a lot. Talked to a few african americans today who said they're not telling anyone, and they're keeping it quiet, but they're voting for Jon. 2017 y'all. Sigh.

Edited June 19, 20178 yr by Reddy