Dem Primary randoms, 6/19

[seeyalater52]

Jun 21, 2019 19:39:21 GMT -5 heyjude said:

Kamala released her summer playlist on Spotify! Enjoy!!

I love her.

[Pom]

Kamala’s speech just rocked the house at the SC Dem convention. She called Trump a predator. And she takes on predators.

[bugandbibs]

Jun 22, 2019 9:03:33 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Jun 21, 2019 22:09:16 GMT -5 ESF said:

This is how I took it too. It's just that his inexperience is so apparent. A person with control over the situation could have delivered the same sentiment with the right combination of confidence and humility.  He just seems so powerless and lost and scared and it's all just so yikes. 

100%. If he can’t handle a simple incident like this with more grace than that he has no business being president. He misread the situation and responded flippantly and it was a bad call bred by inexperience.

His whole demeanor in that clip is “I’m here because I have to be here and I don’t be really want to be so o am going to run down this list and check all the boxes”. It’s dismissive and rude. He’s clearly missing the larger picture. I don’t see the love for him others have. As a minority women, he’s another threat.

[pinkballoons]

Can I ask a stupid question?
Does a purchase from a candidate’s store count as a donation for the minimum needed for qualifying for the debates? My Google skills are failing me.

[seeyalater52]

Jun 22, 2019 12:14:19 GMT -5 pinkballoons said:

Can I ask a stupid question?
Does a purchase from a candidate’s store count as a donation for the minimum needed for qualifying for the debates? My Google skills are failing me.

I dont believe so just because of my understanding of the donor reporting methods vs how purchases are handled by the campaigns and how they are recorded, but it is admittedly kind of confusing so I could be wrong.

[eddy]

Jun 20, 2019 15:21:23 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

Jun 20, 2019 13:34:10 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Klobuchar's baked potato answer is cracking me up too.

Cause a baked potato like those from one of those mall food court places circa 93 - totally legit answer (albeit nms). But I'm just picturing a regular plain baked potato and that makes me sad.

I’m definitely picturing it chock full of butter, cheese, sour cream, maybe some crumbled bacon. Maybe not exactly my idea of a comfort food, but I can see it. Still, definitely sounds funny. She should’ve said loaded baked potato!

She is from minnesota- no way that shit isn't just cooooovvveerred in everything gooey. Come on, if midwesterners can do anything right it is pour dip like substances all over everything.

I love a good baked potato with the fixings and her answer made me like her a bit more lol.

[karinothing]

Jun 22, 2019 12:14:19 GMT -5 pinkballoons said:

Can I ask a stupid question?
Does a purchase from a candidate’s store count as a donation for the minimum needed for qualifying for the debates? My Google skills are failing me.

Yes it is a donation.

[ESF]

Hey look! Another mediocre white guy is joining the primary because 20-whatever candidates just isn’t enough to choose from.

[msmerymac]

Jun 23, 2019 11:01:31 GMT -5 ESF said:

Hey look! Another mediocre white guy is joining the primary because 20-whatever candidates just isn’t enough to choose from.

To clarify, he ran against Toomey for Senate in 2010. He ran in the PRIMARY to run against Toomey in 2016 and lost that primary to Katie McGinty, who then lost to Toomey. So yeah, real impressive credentials, there.

[eddy]

I am working my way through NYT mag article on Elizabeth. I had a lightbulb moment about one of her greatest strengths-she formally taught law. She is used to breaking down complex concepts for learners. I think this is why she is so good at telling the story and talking about the facts.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Jun 25, 2019 6:50:01 GMT -5 eddy said:

I am working my way through NYT mag article on Elizabeth. I had a lightbulb moment about one of her greatest strengths-she formally taught law. She is used to breaking down complex concepts for learners. I think this is why she is so good at telling the story and talking about the facts.

If my school is any indication, this is not a trait found in all law professors. 😉

[centralsquare]

Jun 25, 2019 9:54:55 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Jun 25, 2019 6:50:01 GMT -5 eddy said:

I am working my way through NYT mag article on Elizabeth. I had a lightbulb moment about one of her greatest strengths-she formally taught law. She is used to breaking down complex concepts for learners. I think this is why she is so good at telling the story and talking about the facts.

If my school is any indication, this is not a trait found in all law professors. 😉

Ha. She was my husband’s favorite professor. But no, not everyone is as good as she is!

[Deleted]

Warren has a plan for federalizing national elections, including buying new machines, automatic and same day registration, making Election Day a holiday, and forbidding the purging of voter rolls except in certain circumstances.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/warren-unveils-far-reaching-plan-to-overhaul-elections/2019/06/25/617ee382-96b5-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html

[madDawg228]

Jun 25, 2019 17:02:34 GMT -5 @bugginnine said:

Warren has a plan for federalizing national elections, including buying new machines, automatic and same day registration, making Election Day a holiday, and forbidding the purging of voter rolls except in certain circumstances.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/warren-unveils-far-reaching-plan-to-overhaul-elections/2019/06/25/617ee382-96b5-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html

My first thought was, "what about Mail-in?"

Warren proposes buying new voting machines for all of the roughly 8,000 election jurisdictions in the country, mandating automatic and same-day voter registration and giving all voters access to 15 days of early voting and voting by mail.

Not bad. 

And this quote should be used again and again to push for voting reform:

“Voting should be easy. But instead, many states make it hard for people to vote,” Warren wrote in a Medium post outlining her new policy. “. . . Our elections should be as secure as Fort Knox. But instead, they’re less secure than your Amazon account.”

[winecat]

Making election day a holiday doesn't do shit for low wage workers. Service industries don't get holidays. The majority of these workers are people of color and women so it's a big deal.

Warren is winning over more Bernie Bros in my world.

[Deleted]

Jun 25, 2019 18:19:49 GMT -5 winecat said:

Making election day a holiday doesn't do shit for low wage workers. Service industries don't get holidays. The majority of these workers are people of color and women so it's a big deal.

Warren is winning over more Bernie Bros in my world.

Yeah, making Election Day a holiday is so far down on my list of ways to make voting participation easier. We can even close our fucking malls on Thanksgiving in this country. I can already see the ads for bottomless Election Day brunch. Expanded early/absentee/vote by mail, adding more polling places to reduce distances needed to travel, hiring more workers and buying more booths so lines go faster...all of these things would be more effective.

[ESF]

The best part of Warren's plan is how she proposes giving states money if they comply with certain fair procedures, undertake efforts to broaden voting rights, etc. Honestly, that's my favorite idea from her yet.

[pixy0stix]

Someone remember to start a separate thread for the debates tonight.

[ESF]

This is the first time in history there will be more than one woman on the presidential debate stage!

www.vox.com/2019/6/26/18716212/democratic-debates-diversity-elizabeth-warren-kamala-harris-amy-klobuchar

[miniroller]

Jun 25, 2019 18:19:49 GMT -5 winecat said:

Making election day a holiday doesn't do shit for low wage workers. Service industries don't get holidays. The majority of these workers are people of color and women so it's a big deal.

As a restaurant owner, I can speak to federal holidays actually making service workers busier (people have off/ time to go out to eat/ shop/ etc.). Thus- service workers may have an even harder time getting a break to vote, since they may well be busting it more than usual, if Election Day was a Fed holiday. (Though we, of course, let our employees vote on the clock & make sure to encourage them all to please do!)

[MarmeeNoir]

There’s already talk of if Bernie isn’t elected they’ll throw it in a group I’m in. I’m going to leave it.

[centralsquare]

Jun 26, 2019 17:11:39 GMT -5 MarmeeNoir said:

There’s already talk of if Bernie isn’t elected they’ll throw it in a group I’m in. I’m going to leave it.

He’s gonna encourage all that shit too. #narcissist

[morecoffeeplease]

I thought this was interesting.

The tweeter commented on a color in an Elizabeth warrens button to be mint. They were corrected. The color is called liberty green and it was color matched to the Statue of Liberty.

[ESF]

Fucking Bernie’s fucking speechwriter

[elleblue]

Jun 27, 2019 10:42:06 GMT -5 ESF said:

Fucking Bernie’s fucking speechwriter

Oh ffs. People have been discussing progressive ideas and policies for a long time. There was even a dedicated radio station back in the aughts - Air America, so he can't even be credited with bringing these ideas to the masses. He may have helped amplify some stuff but he doesn't own it. I'm so sick of him.

[suburbanzookeeper]

A friend sent this to me in the middle of the debates last night.

 

[heat40]

Omg. Bill De Blasio just said a Che Guevara quote while supporting a Union strike in Miami. What an idiot.

[ufcasey]

Jun 27, 2019 12:55:45 GMT -5 suburbanzookeeper said:

A friend sent this to me in the middle of the debates last night.

 

Poor Marianne Williamson, she didn't even make it in there as a joke. I guess there were no popular men who are as hippy-dippy as her.

[ufcasey]

Jun 27, 2019 9:09:13 GMT -5 morecoffeeplease said:

I thought this was interesting.

The tweeter commented on a color in an Elizabeth warrens button to be mint. They were corrected. The color is called liberty green and it was color matched to the Statue of Liberty.

The navy blue is definitely throwing it off, it looks mint to me too. But that is a fun detail that they matched it to the Statue of Liberty.

[ufcasey]

Jun 27, 2019 13:56:12 GMT -5 heat40 said:

Omg. Bill De Blasio just said a Che Guevara quote while supporting a Union strike in Miami. What an idiot.

Am I the only one who did not know this about De Blasio?

dailycaller.com/2014/02/04/de-blasio-tells-jon-stewart-i-dont-wear-the-che-guevara-t-shirt-when-i-go-to-work/

As a young man in the 1980s, de Blasio traveled to Nicaragua to support the revolutionary socialist Sandinista regime.

“I was involved in a movement that I thought made a lot of sense, and it began, and the reason I got involved, was because of United States foreign policy,” de Blasio said during his campaign for mayor last year, turning down an opportunity to repent.

De Blasio also chose to spend his honeymoon in Communist Cuba.