Another one of my “I should have pinned this long ago” posts.
«A summary of the economic policies that won a thumbs-up from our broad spectrum of economists — and would probably prove toxic to any actual presidential candidate.»
https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2020/02/twitter-is-bad-for-the-news/605782/
«the distorted, often ill-prepared arguments and political firestorms are generally not helpful or informative for the rest of us. If Twitter is ruinous for the Left, then chances are it’s functionally ruinous FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY.»
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/whats-behind-warrens-weak-start/
Thanks, @perrybaconjr. If you were normal media, I’d excoriate you for this “maybe/maybe not” ending, but I’ll cut you some slack since you’re 538. I’m hoping for the former (wide appeal).
Also, ftr, I like the “weak start” headline. Much better than something more negative. It IS only a start.
«But this nomination race is incredibly unsettled, and at some point, having wide appeal might come in handy.
Or not.»
https://twitter.com/kmg_kristen/status/1227938026397061122?s=20
It’s started. #NC4Warren
Kristen Gardner (@kmg_kristen) Tweeted:
#NCforWarren first line for early voting! Time to get Liz Warren elected! https://t.co/RuN6TJqhhy
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1227594895747141632.html
Pure. Genius. Especially the part about red-pilling us all.
Get it before it disappears.
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2020/02/new-hampshire-plus-beefsteak-bernie-bros.html
Yikes.
«The elections that brought Hitler to power offer us a profound warning from the past. The left-most German party was the KDP; we may consider those voters the Bernie Bros of their time and place. They concentrated not on defeating Hitler but on weakening the center.
Believe it or not, the prospect of a Hitler victory appealed to many within the KDP. They said: “After Hitler, our turn.” It didn’t occur to those naive ninnies that Hitler would smash any mechanism that might give them a turn.
Once Hitler consolidated power, a surprising number of KDP rank-and-filers decided to join the Nazi party. They were derisively labeled “Beefsteak Nazis” — brown on the outside, red on the inside. Before not too many years had passed, the browning had gone all the way to the marrow.
I wonder how many Bernie Bros have the potential to turn into Beefsteak Nazis? Quite a few, I’d reckon. Consider the example of H.A. Goodman.»
Who?
This guy: https://thedailybanter.com/2018/04/23/ha-goodman-now-supports-trump/ (Maybe he’s an outlier, maybe… not so much of an outlier?)
https://twitter.com/MikeElgan/status/1227427493742669825?s=20
Very cyberpunk, in a way.
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/2020-primary-endorsements-governor-council-of-state/
No, really, they really are a liberal rag; they just endorse Republicans sometimes to fool you.
«Republican: Christine Mumma
The only plausible Republican to replace Josh Stein, Mumma is the executive director of the North Carolina Commission on Actual Innocence, and she’s represented nine people who’ve been exonerated for crimes they didn’t commit. Her two opponents are unremarkable. This one’s easy.
….
Republican: Mike Causey
Say what you want about Mike Causey, but don’t say he’s corrupt. When developer Greg Lindberg tried to bribe him to fire an unfriendly senior regulator, Causey reported him to the feds and then wore a wire, leading to Lindberg’s arrest (and that of two associates) and the arrest of the NCGOP’s chairman.….
Republican: None of these
It’ll take some effort to be a worse labor commissioner than our departing elevator queen, Cherie Berry. But by God, these three—Chuck Stanley, Josh Dobson, and Pearl Floyd—are going to try.»
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/2020-primary-endorsements-president-congress/
The Independent, the Research Triangle’s liberal rag whose investigative reporting is a thorn in the side of NC conservatives, has endorsed @ewarren.
