I think Harris and Warren have to be on the same ticket. I can't choose between them. LOL
Yeah. I'm discovering a Warren crush this week and it's exciting to have someone who is both an unapologetic wonk and unapologetic Democrat. It's thrilling. But Harris is just as smart, brings a different kind of ability to connect and major hard core executive experience, and by staking out liberal yet less sweeping positions, seems to be pragmatic and the kind of person who could win big in a general.
To the extent Harris isn't coming out swinging as hard as Warren and is a little more cautious, I still not ready to dismiss her. She's got a different background, and one in which she was judged hard for being a woman of color by people on every side of the aisle, whereas Warren did enjoy a privilege in being a tenured professor at a liberal university, where she got to enjoy the luxury of being surrounded by like minded people. She was able to give no fucks about her views in a way that other candidates, and especially Harris, was not.
We should be so lucky to have either of them on the ticket, and I'm just going to go all in for both. Since I'm moving to DC, my primary won't be until June, so I probably won't ever have to pick, and if I do because the two of them have an Obama/Hillary 2008 repeat, I will be ecstatic. We should get to see what a woman of color can do if given the chance, and give the backbone of the party a voice in such a competitive and interesting race. The democrats should get Warren's bold policy proposals. And girls everywhere should get to see a competitive race between two intelligent women.
I genuinely don’t understand taking people’s voting rights away. People should be able to vote, period. I really don’t care what they’ve done in their life, literally no one should lose the ability to cast a vote.
Agreed.
I understand there may be some logistical issues with turning a prison into an actual polling place, but I doubt those are too big to overcome. Also - absentee ballots exist.
I really don't understand the argument that we shouldn't try to fix the college loan crisis because it would be unfair to people who have paid off their loans.
H and I paid off our loans years ago. We also went to college in a time when tuition was slightly more balanced with income than it is today. That was a huge benefit for us, and I could turn the argument around and say the situation today is more unfair.
Even if it was unfair against us, we still learned some useful skills about budgeting and finance that help us still, and I won't regret that even if today's students end up paying less.
Also on prioritizing, I don't think free college should be our top national priority (I'd definitely put civil rights, climate change, K12 education, health care, saving democracy, etc. before free college), but I do think we'd be better off as a country if more people had the analytical skills often learned in college. I'm all for making it easier for more people to get higher education in part because I do think it can help us to make progress on those other complex problems.
Fox is already spinning the prison vote question as “Bernie wants terrorists and sexual assaulters to be able to vote” FYI.
And they were talking about Hillary’s emails again yesterday. So rest assured, their viewers are getting nuanced punditry on these current topics. 🙄
We already have a sexual assaulter voting. He also sits in the Oval Office. I'm a lot less worried about what the ones in prison can do with their votes than what he can do with his Sharpie.
I really don't understand the argument that we shouldn't try to fix the college loan crisis because it would be unfair to people who have paid off their loans...
YES!!!!!!!! Best analogy-ish that I saw, “Since I’m a cancer survivor, I’m wholeheartedly against a cure; if I had to fight through it, so should everyone else!”
*Also, sorry for the late likes- we were in & out watching last night & I didn’t want following this thread to effect my opinions, as silly as that sounds. But YES! I agree with so much of what I’m reading here.
ESF I LOVED your post on Harris/ Warren so much that I sent it to my H because we had a pretty intense debate (heh) about this last night, & your arguments/ reasoning are tremendously better than my angry you-don’t-understand rants last night , TIA!
Post by partyinmytummy on Apr 23, 2019 13:57:48 GMT -5
Re: Castro - from what I have understood, he still qualifies because he is polling at 1% in some major polls. However, if the field of candidates polling at 1% is too large (over 20), the 65,000 donors will become a secondary qualifier.
Beto is going on a road trip in CA. I need heyjude and ESF to chime in on how obnoxious this is. Lol
Hahaha
The only good thing about Pete-mania is that the press seems to have forgotten about Beto.
I get the feeling that Beto thinks he is too cool for school in terms of campaigning. He thinks that he can just go on a road trip and the media will follow and not realizing that there are 19 other candidates and if he doesn't put in the leg work to get his face on the major networks through TV appearances, his campaign is going to get streamrolled. He has really derailed the momentum he had when he came into the race in such a huge way, it really is remarkable. Even a small town mayor realized how important it is to just get on TV, podcasts, radio and whoever will listen. Beto seems to think that he can win the nom by releasing IG live videos and relying on the youth demographic.
The only good thing about Pete-mania is that the press seems to have forgotten about Beto.
I get the feeling that Beto thinks he is too cool for school in terms of campaigning. He thinks that he can just go on a road trip and the media will follow and not realizing that there are 19 other candidates and if he doesn't put in the leg work to get his face on the major networks through TV appearances, his campaign is going to get streamrolled. He has really derailed the momentum he had when he came into the race in such a huge way, it really is remarkable. Even a small town mayor realized how important it is to just get on TV, podcasts, radio and whoever will listen. Beto seems to think that he can win the nom by releasing IG live videos and relying on the youth demographic.
I’ve read on twitter from multiple sources that Pete basically accepts every interview and is super available which is a not insignificant part of why he has been covered so much. I kind of thought Beto would do the same thing because both he and Pete are available in a way that wouldn’t bite them eventually. Like a sitting senator could get slammed for missing votes or whatever but Beto has no job and Pete is the outgoing mayor of a city so they could take road trips or accept every interview without too much backlash.
Guess not though. Beto is both interesting to me because of his choices (in a wtf way) and totally not (in a voting for him way).