marceline

I think that, barring something dramatic, this is the beginning of AOC's flameout. I'm seeing people who love her start saying, "I like her energy but..." Nothing about this made her look good to anyone but her cult. The whining and complaining and "playing the race card" (an expression I hate). How do you serve in the same body with John Lewis, Elijah Cummings and Maxine Waters and compare them to the people who supported the Klan? I think it's fitting that the Congressional Black Caucus finally decided to take the gloves off and I think it's only going to get saltier.

Me too.

I expected that Harris' attack wouldn't leave much of a mark. That said, people who keep trying to make this about Obama are looking for excuses why reality isn't playing out to confirm their narrative.

I think it could be found with others but no one is running on it. No one is talking about how exhausting this all is. Granted there's a thousand people running but I haven't felt a real connection with any of them. A moment here or there but no one seems to get it for me.

I keep seeing people talk about how much they want to see X person debate Trump. It's not going to matter. Trump is senile and stupid. Anybody who debates him will "win" but it won't matter. Hillary shredded him during the debates and it didn't matter. The same for people saying that Kamala took Biden apart last night. It won't matter. Biden's support isn't "technical" it's emotional. It's about a traumatized electorate desperate for sanity and stability. Not a single person running seems to grasp that other than Biden. Everybody else is promising big changes which only reads as upheaval. Biden's messaging is clumsy right now but he's slowly zeroing in on the thing I think people want to hear. If he finally hits the point of "I'm here to end this chaos," he will be untouchable. IMO, all these people trying to knock Biden out of the top spot are failing because they are misreading the electorate. Going after Biden on busing means nothing to me and I'm someone who was actually bused as a child.

This part of the problem with such a big field. You can't have a real debate with ten people on stage. There simply isn't time to ask everyone questions.

Yeah, that was a nice bit of good news.

What I find interesting are the people who seem to not notice that homophobia. I have friends who swear that Ameica is ready for a gay president because they seem to be incapable of realizing that Trump is the backlash to the fact we elected a black one. So many on the left have just disappeared into this cocoon of denial about the American electorate.

A perfect example of how Buttigieg simply isn't qualified for the job he wants.

Bernie pulled the same [!@#$%^&*] with Sherrod Brown in 2016 after Brown endorsed Clinton. Politico quoted an anonymous campaign staffer then Bernie called Sherrod to say it wasn't true. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/blogs/2016/06/08/politico-bernie-sanders-furious-sherrod-brown/85589252/ Bernie attacked Warren on Twitter from his own account. This is the kind of petty, bitter trash he is.

I really don't think any of this is going to stick to Biden. In fact I think his refusal to apologize will help him. People might want to keep talking about how Biden is prone to gaffes but he didn't make a gaffe here. He pointed to his ability to hold his nose and do what it takes to get something real done even if it meant working with awful people. That doesn't play well with the Woke Police because they only care about performative outrage not making real, concrete progress.

This is basically Anita Hill saying don't use her as an excuse for purity theatrics.

Agreed. He pissed me off a lot towards the end but he's on the side of the angels when it comes to this subject. I'm glad it paid off.

John Hickenlooper has decided to drag Bernie and by doing so just catapulted his way into my top 5. 😊

The Berners are going to be extra toxic this election because the revolution is dying and as a southern friend of mine likes to say "a dying mule kicks the hardest."

Latest polls. Looks like Warren is starting to surge.

Stewart does a good job of giving voice to the rage so many of us feel and not just about 9/11.

Finally someone talks to black voters in the south.

Miss Thing isn't about going to jail.

At this point I blame The West Wing. A whole generation of liberals have grown up thinking that Republicans are just one grand sweeping speech away from being turned from the dark side. The most frustrating thing for me about the current state of progressivism is the fixation on symbolic victories even at the expense of real world progress. These people are helping Fox's bottom line at the expense of the people whose votes they need. I was very grateful to see Sam Bee call it what it is: stupid. It's a stupid thing to do. Nobody who has done a town hall is polling any better.

Sigh. Apparently Julian Castro has decided to do a Fox News town hall. This primary has been a master class in being disappointed by people I supported.

We're already there whether he's reelected or not. Every other country on Earth is treating Donald and America like a joke.

1973 didn't have a media ecosystem like we have now. They didn't have Fox News and they didn't have a Republican Party that was willing to work with a hostile foreign power to undermine our democracy. Too many people are acting like impeachment is a magic wand when the truth is it literally will change nothing because the Republicans will do anything to keep him in office. The election is 16 months away. Impeachment now would be premature and self defeating.

I'm not looking forward to the bad media hot takes that will flood the zone after he speaks.

I won't lie. Watching the "legitimate" press freaking out about the Assange indictment is giving me some pretty nice schadenfreude. These people treated the 2016 election like a game because they assumed they wouldn't be impacted. They thought they would get to spend the next four years beating up on Hillary. Even after Trump handwaved the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, they didn't course correct. They stayed firmly committed to false equivalence and normalization. But now that they are in the crosshairs they want us all to take to the barricades to defend the "free press." Sorry but no. Like so many people suffering under Trump, they did this to themselves.