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Rafi Schwartz Sep 20, 2019. 8 comments

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday morning that he had ended his worthless pres

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday morning that he had ended his worthless presidential bid, telling MSNBC’s Morning Joe, “it’s clearly not my time.” Perhaps now he can get back to doing what he loves: Killing rats .

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The Stroking Van Dykes Sep 20, 2019

Elsewhere, New Yorkers cheered the return of a beloved mayor whose effective leadership has stopped rent prices from skyrocketing, reined in the NYPD, and solved traffic problems around the city.

MBCock Sep 20, 2019

I would argue that’s pretty much the last several mayors in NYC.

Arnheim Sep 20, 2019

Hey, Van Dykes , I’d like to introduce you to my friend, Alanis—I was thinking you could help her with her homework on irony. She seems to be having some trouble, and you’ve clearly got the verbal aspect down.

Scoop K Sep 20, 2019

I hope his crosstown gym membership didn’t expire, it’d be sad if he had to pay a new entrance fee

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David Boddiger Jul 29, 2019. 10 comments

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Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday he is dumping Trump on Twitter. “I’m unfollowing the President of the United States today on Twitter, because his feed is the most hate-filled , racist , and demeaning of the 200+ I follow, and it regularly ruins my day to read it,” he wrote.

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dudebra Jul 29, 2019

Sorry Senator. Although I sympathize with you, it is your Constitutional duty, as part of the legislative branch, to provide a check and a balance on the depravity of the illegitimate traitor infesting the White House. You owe all of us, and particularly the people of Connecticut that voted for you, to read his disgusting ramblings and respond accordingly.

Start by reading them in to the Senate record and asking Moscow Mitch why he won’t censure them.

PooJavelin - Master of the wit and the repartee! Jul 29, 2019

So any guesses what s tupid childis h taunt rhymes with Chris?

Quasar Funk Jul 29, 2019

He does alliteration too, perhaps even more, and he’s completely lac king in creativity, so “Crazy Chris” would be my odds-on favorite.

PooJavelin - Master of the wit and the repartee! Jul 29, 2019

I s hould have said “goes with Chris”.

“Crazy Chris” was all I had too…

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Rafi Schwartz Jul 13, 2019.

GOP Reportedly Panicking That Voters Are Buying Trump's 'Red Wave' Bullshit

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To hear President Donald Trump tell it, Republicans are in great shape ahead of November’s midterms, despite poll after poll after poll favoring the Democrats. In fact, he’s predicting a “red wave” that will keep the GOP in power. And now, much to the Republican National Committee’s dismay, the president’s most diehard supporters are starting to believe him.

While most voters expect Democrats...

Libby Watson Jul 02, 2019.

Neera Tanden Is Simply Too Online

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On Tuesday, the New York Times published a truly bonkers story about the head of the Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden, and her many ongoing feuds online with anyone who has ever been mildly critical of Hillary Clinton.

Less logged-on folks might remember Tanden for her suggestion that Libya ought to use its oil reserves to pay the U.S. back for the cost of bombing it. Here, however,...

David Boddiger Jun 30, 2019. 10 comments

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Sen. Kamala Harris’ body blow to former Vice President Joe Biden this week has translated into a fresh infusion of campaign cash. Harris raised $2 million online within 24 hours of Thursday night’s debate, mostly from first-time donors, The Daily Beast reported.

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Cabbage-Patch-Mather Jun 30, 2019

Kamala is my Senator and I’d be fine with her as President. A Harris/ Buttigieg ticket would be pretty strong.

Warren did well, but after Kamala’s performance, I don’t think she’ll make it. When the time comes where the last five candidates are on the stage , Kamala will tear Warren apart.

We’ll see where the polls are in a week, but if Biden survives his debate performance, it’s a horserace between Kamala and Joe.

Mr. Knapp is Tired of the Bernie Bros Jun 30, 2019

Of course you like her, you’re a rich dude and you know that she will protect your neighborhood.

I can’t be mad about that.

I think you might see a Joe/Kamala ticket with Kamala being used as “beard” of sorts to virtue signal his new “wokeness”.

Which is hilarious, because at the end of the day, Kamala will go full Obama-esque moderate Republican. You simply do NOT become a prosecutor for our criminal justice system without some deep rooted ideas.

Will she hide that side to exploit the plebes and get over? Heck yes. That’s the way the game is played, and it never fails.

Cabbage-Patch-Mather Jun 30, 2019

Crime has dropped so dramatically from the early nineties, when I moved to LA, that my neighborhood isn’t exactly a place that needs extra protection. With some exceptions , the US has become overall a pretty safe place compared to the last half of the 20th Century. Been to South Central lately? It’s mostly safe. Same with East LA. There are several dangerous housing developments in South Central which account for around 50% of all the crime in the city. But, outside of those areas, the LA area doesn’t have a ton of crime. And, I don’t see even the most progressive candidates- Bernie, Mike Gravel, Warren- doing anything to change that.

If I were somehow super paranoid about crime that doesn’t exist , I’d be voting for Trump.

Hatless VI: Hatless Lives Jun 30, 2019

Always liked Kamala. It will be interesting to watch the far left finally figure out she was a prosecutor and closer to Biden then Warren.

Constant Colors Jun 30, 2019

“ ... the far left finally figure out she was a prosecutor...”

This is a nonsense statement.

Cabbage-Patch-Mather Jun 30, 2019

The far left hates Kamala for completely irrational reasons. Sure, she’s was a prosecutor. However, the policies she’d actually get through Congress and to her desk likely wouldn’t differ much from what Bernie, Warren, Joe or any other candidate would be able to get through.

A raise in the top marginal rates is a raise in the top marginal rates- doesn’t matter who signs it. Likewise, a fifteen dollar minimum, universal healthcare, or the ushering in of a clean energy boom.

Life for the average person under Kamala would look pretty similar to what it would be under Warren or most of the other candidates. Except Marianne Williamson. She’s fucking crazy.

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David Boddiger Jun 11, 2019.

Brett Kavanaugh Appears to Have Lied Repeatedly Under Oath and the GOP Doesn’t Care

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Repeatedly Under Oath and the GOP Doesn’t Care<em></em> </a>

One would think that honesty and integrity would be the most basic requirements for a nominee to the country’s highest court. By those standards, however, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wouldn’t even be in the running. Yet, here we are.

Honesty, it seems, isn’t something Republican lawmakers are even remotely interested in when selecting the person to fill a lifetime appointment to the...

Rafi Schwartz May 22, 2019. 3 comments

House Dems on Tuesday subpoenaed longtime Trump confidant and former White House staffer Hope Hicks

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House Dems on Tuesday subpoenaed longtime Trump confidant and former White House staffer Hope Hicks, who’s ordered to testify before the House Judiciary Committee June 19. Although the administration has stonewalled all previous House subpoenas by Democrats, Hope, it seems, springs eternal.

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Else You Are Mad May 22, 2019

If the Dems are going to subpoena these people they might as well move to find them in contempt the minute they don’t show up to the hearing. They need to stop giving them second chances and wagging their fingers saying “If you don’t comply , we really mean it that we will hold you in contempt!” b ecause Trump is just calling their bluff and all of his associates are just walking all over the Dems.

Sethersm May 22, 2019

It is my belief that Congress has the power to subpoena anyone for any reason and that person must present themselves. To not do so should result in immediate contempt and that person should be then compelled to show up.

Please not that I’m not saying that the person should be forced to answer questions. Everyone still has their 5th amendment rights and attorney client privilege still applies. Those would be valid reasons for not answering questions, but they need to at least show up and claim them!

ManchuCandidate May 22, 2019

Demrats hope floats.

Trumpkins hope flouts.

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Paul Blest May 15, 2019. 12 comments

On the same night that the Alabama Senate effectively voted to ban abortion, a Senate committee in R

Abortion Alabama Democrats Metapost Rhode Island

On the same night that the Alabama Senate effectively voted to ban abortion , a Senate committee in Rhode Island—a chamber in which Democrats have a 33-5 majority over Republicans—declined to move a bill forward that would enshrine abortion rights into state law. Great job, idiots.

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Hello, America: Dissent is Patriotic May 16, 2019

I cast my first vote for an anti choice candidate when I voted for Louisiana governor in 2015. He has done great work toward balancing the budget and has expanded Medicare. I knew he was anti choice but at the time thought Hillary Clinton would be our next president. Now, he is also about to sign a bill in Louisiana similar to Georgia’s new abortion ban. And this is an election year, and if I want to keep the first two things, I’m going to have to cast another vote for him after this abortion bill passes.

I will ALWAYS vote which will sometimes mean the lesser of two evils, but I truly trust no one who isn’t an outspoken, pro choice woman. Male pro choicers can say the right things and do the right things but I will never trust them not to negotiate my bodily autonomy away.

I’m going to go Daenerys on the next liberal man who tries to convince me otherwise.

The women in your life are grieving and they need you to shut your fucking mal e face today.

Sugarbullet23 May 16, 2019

Wait, wait...you voted for the anti-choice guy, consciously. Now he’s doing the thing you knew he might do and you’re going to vote for him again? After the tirade you went on, on Hamilton Nolan’s post and here again where you mention Women are collectively grieving (we are) yet you are STILL voting for this guy?

360modena1 May 16, 2019

So your stance is that men who claim to be pro choice will disregard that when it’ s politically convenient, therefore only trust women?

But in the paragraph directl y above that, you admit you knowingly voted for an anti- choice candidate because you had other political priorities.

You do see the blatant hypocrisy there, right?

Action Johnny May 15, 2019

Oh but we mustn’t blame Democrats or interrogate their overall strategy too harshly. Let’s focus our outrage on a handful of mostly imaginary voters in Michigan and Wisconsin.

brontosaurian May 16, 2019

A RI Democrat is not exactly as bad, but similar to that of one from the South. New England is pretty blue, but RI is a bit backwards.

Socraticsilence May 16, 2019

RI Democrats by and large aren’t Democrats- it’s a one party state in the same way say Utah outside of SLC is a one party state.

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Kashmir Hill Mar 22, 2019.

Recent hacks should make Democrats favor encryption

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Last week, the Democratic National Convention was thrown into a tizzy when Wikileaks released a searchable database of thousands of emails from Democratic National Committee staffers. The most ironic of the emails was one from the DNC's head of communications declaring a Buzzfeed article about the organization being terrible at cybersecurity the "dumbest thing I've ever read."

(On Friday, the...

Patrick Hogan Mar 18, 2019.

Martin O'Malley says the Democrats are still the party of diversity (despite having 3 white candidates)

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The Democratic Party likes to call itself the party of inclusion that embraces an America that is becoming less white every year. But eight years after nominating the country's first black president, the party's field of candidates for the nation's highest office is once again all-white.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is one of those white guys seeking the Democratic nomination, but he...

Paul Blest Mar 16, 2019. 16 comments

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2020 Election Al Gore Democrats Metapost

1. Who’s asking Al Gore for advice on winning elections? 2. Name names, Al.

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Poodletime II: the Return of Poodletime Mar 16, 2019

Um, you can dr ag Al Gore for being stuffy, for being unwilling to own the successes of the Clinton era, and for being so moderate that Ralph Nader got a significant fraction of the Democratic vote. But let’s make sure we don’t criticize him for losing. Because he actually won. The Supreme Court intervened in the election and decided in favor of The Sh rub, and virtually everything we suffer from now was set in motion.

The only thing I’d drag him for is giving up too easily in the face of the Bushes. It set a horrible pre ced ent as well, one that poisons the Democrats’ ability to win elections up until this day. Stacey Abrams has set the template for this kind of thing in the future, and with the passing of HR- 1, we may see an end to the shenanigans that steal elections from Democrats.

Anybody who is still pissed off about that election, or the most recent one, needs to agitate within their own region for the 50-State Compact.

StoneMustard Mar 16, 2019

The retroactive blaming of Al Gore for SCOTUS refusing Florida to count it’s votes is infuriating. Like I get that “Al Gore, weak, limp-wristed liberal lanyard ” was a popular image among the GOP (and Ma ureen Dowd ) in 2000, but it sucks that people on the left decided to take it up, too.

eastcoastelite1 Mar 16, 2019

The progressive left never fails to spout Republican talking points aimed at suppressing their vote.

HighAndTight Mar 16, 2019

1. Who’s asking Al Gore for advice on w inning elections?

You mean b esides the next Democrat to win a presidential election?

But , who eagerly courted Gore’s endorsement during the heated presidential race, has long said he would welcome the Democratic elder into his White House, at least as an informal adviser.

“I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this [climate change] problem,” Obama said in April.

While this is the first time Gore is set to sit down with the president-elect since Election Day, the two regularly speak, aides have said.

BurnerColangelo Mar 16, 2019

Obama really took Gore’s climate change initiatives seriously and implemented a robust climate change program.

Whoops.

HighAndTight Mar 16, 2019

I too wish he had done better (in a number of areas), but I don’t think his shortcomings on climate change can be chalked up to him failing to take the issue seriously. A President that respects the rule of law can only do so much by fiat. He only had even a thin advantage in the Senate for his first two years, and he spent that time dragging the economy out of the shitter and fighting for the ACA, hardly ignoble goals .

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Katherine Krueger Mar 12, 2019. 19 comments

After heavily teasing the idea for what feels like forever, Joe Biden confirmed to an unnamed Democr

Democrats Joe Biden Metapost

After heavily teasing the idea for what feels like forever , Joe Biden confirmed to an unnamed Democratic lawmaker that he’s jumping into the 2020 presidential race, The Hill reported on Tuesday. “I’m giving it a shot,” he reportedly told the lawmaker, who relayed the exchange to the site. Wish you wouldn’t !

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NoGas Mar 12, 2019

Prepare for some heavy scrutiny, Mr. Biden. I imagine they’ve weighed any impending sexual harassment claims (so much smoke around that potential fire), his very colorful history with racism, and his complete lack of respect for women into this, yes?

And before I get another wave of “WHERE WERE YOU IN 2012!?”, I was here, not liking Joe Biden.

Stairmasternem Mar 12, 2019

So what you are saying is....he might have some things in common with the Republican voting base! Bleck.

The Dreaded Rear Admiral Mar 12, 2019

Biden sucks and always has.

But if he’s the one tapped to get the current nightmare we’re living through out of office, then I’ll support him all the way and worry about the next step after that.

Scoop K Mar 12, 2019

he’s been building up Joementum

I Brain You Mar 12, 2019

Get out...GET OUT.

*throws dirty plates, tomatoes, and all other accessible objects*

The Game Anthropologist Mar 13, 2019

Look, I don’t like him that much, but don’t put that evil on him.

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Katherine Krueger Feb 28, 2019. 5 comments

Very cool to liken your flirting with a presidential run to the conquering of the Aztec Empire by Sp

Colonialism Democrats Eric Swalwell Metapost

Very cool to liken your flirting with a presidential run to the conquering of the Aztec Empire by Spanish colonists, which involved slaughtering the Native population by the hundreds and millions dying of smallpox! Right on, my guy!!

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KinjaWidgetNinjaDigits Feb 28, 2019

I mean, what sort of moron risks losing the endorsement of the Oberlin Social Justice Institute right out of the gate?

Come on. It’s a turn of phrase for an actual event that happened (though as I understand it, he sunk the ships, but details). If you’re going to rag on him, rag on him for misuse and exaggeration. Cortez did that to prevent his men from having the option of a mutiny. In Swalwell’s case, it’s not like staffers can’t, you know, go find a job elsewhere if they don’t want to participate in a completely hopeless Presidential run when he’s taken away their day jobs to do it.

Also, it’s not exactly like a Presidential run is a conquer or die proposition.

Constant Colors Feb 28, 2019

So, what you’re saying is, you’re feeling gypped?

Banestar Feb 28, 2019

So, if it was a Hitler quote, you’d be ok with it?

WullahBlack Feb 28, 2019

I think you're reading into it too much.

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Kashmir Hill Feb 23, 2019.

The mysterious hacker of the DNC

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Last month, America's top spy chief warned that hackers were targeting the presidential campaigns. That announcement was apparently a movie trailer for this week's release of documents that a hacker says he got from the Democratic National Committee servers, including the party's alleged opposition research on Donald Trump and a purported list of Democratic donors that shows million dollar...

David Boddiger Jan 04, 2019.

3 White Men Top Iowa Poll of Preferred 2020 Democratic Contenders

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153. That’s the combined age of the two white men atop a new Iowa poll of presidential candidates preferred by likely 2020 Democratic caucusgoers. No women and no people of color reached double-digit support. And that’s what we’re facing in our first glimpse of the most critical presidential race of our lifetimes, at least in Iowa.

The Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows former...

Clio Chang Dec 26, 2018.

Turns Out a Federal Jobs Guarantee Is Very Popular and Democrats Should Probably All Run on It

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Although big policy ideas are often derided as impractical or impossible by the professional political class, they can actually be quite popular among voters. One such idea that’s gained traction over the last few years is for the federal government to guarantee a job for anyone who wants to work.

New polling data out today by Civis Analytics and Data for Progress found that a federal job...

Katherine Krueger Nov 18, 2018.

Oh Good, Democrats Picked Chuck Schumer Again

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Frequent readers of this blog already know: We are not fans of Chuck Schumer, or really any leader of the Democratic Party, particularly at the national level.

So it’s with great displeasure that I tell you the senator from New York was re-elected as Minority Leader today. And why not, he’s pretty good at losing!

Get Them Out Now

The reaction to last night’s election results has been mostly...

Rafi Schwartz Nov 13, 2018. 6 comments

Do not call the Democrats lame ducks

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Do not call the Democrats lame ducks. They are actually good—perhaps even great!—ducks. Treat them as you would the sexy Central Park duck: Feed them bread, or popcorn, and let them fly high as they head South for the winter.

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HighAndTight Nov 13, 2018

We are flying high and taking p ride in the greatest Democratic victory in the House since 1974.

So unds strangely similar to “In America, ” the (extremely catchy) 1980 ode to Reagan’s impending victory by far-right fiddle bigot Charlie Daniels. ( Remember when Republicans thought that Russians trying to undermine American democracy was a bad thing? Pepperidge Farm remembers.)

Well the eagle’s been flying slow And the flag’s been flying low And a lot of people saying that America’s fixing to fall Well speaking just for me And some people from Tennessee We’ve got a thing or two to tell you all This lady may have stumbled But she ain’t never fell And if the Russians don’t believe that They can all go straight to hell We’re gonna put her feet back On the path of righteousness and then God bless America again

And you never did think That it ever would happen again (In America, did you?) You never did think That we’d ever get together again (We damn sure fooled you) Yeah, we’re walking real proud And we’re talking real loud again (In America) You never did think That it ever would happen again

From t he Sound up in Long Island Out to San Francisco Bay And everything that’s in between them is our own And we may have done a little bit Of fighting among ourselves But you outside people best leave us alone Cause we’ll all stick together And you can take that to the bank That’s the cowboys and the hippies And the rebels and the yanks You just go and lay your hand On a Pittsburgh Steelers fan And I think you’re gonna finally understand

David E. Davis rides again! Nov 13, 2018

I liked it better when he was more about weed smokin’.

HighAndTight Nov 13, 2018

My personal favorite is his story of a liberal traveler using his wits to escape a bunch of violent deplorables.

(The sequel, “ Uneasy Rider ’88" is, alas, pure unvarnished homophobia.)

ajdragoon Nov 13, 2018

Oh boy. Trying to spin an old figure of speech into something that sounds hip and cool is a great way to How Do You Do Fellow Kids.

Besides, the correct thing to say was: “ As we travel to Washington for this lame duck period, House Democrats are anything but lame ducks. We are MIGHTY EAGLES! CAW! ” That would show some spunk!

Poodletime II: the Return of Poodletime Nov 13, 2018

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Rafi Schwartz Oct 31, 2018.

Trump Is Really Off His Rocker With His Latest Anti-Immigrant Screed

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President Donald Trump kicked off his Thursday with an unhinged attack on four separate Central American countries acting, he insisted, at the behest of...congressional Democrats. Oh, and he also threatened to declare martial law in order to entirely shut down the United State’s southern border with Mexico. All before 8 a.m.

Trump’s rant comes less than 24-hours after the president

David Boddiger Oct 21, 2018.

Elizabeth Warren Says She’ll ‘Take a Hard Look’ at White House Bid

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‘Take a Hard Look’ at White House Bid</a>

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has made what The Boston Globe called the “most definitive indication to date” that she plans to run for president in 2020.

Speaking at a town hall in Holyoke on Saturday, Warren said she’d take a “hard look at running for president” after the upcoming midterm elections in November. She cited both the damage that President Donald Trump is doing to the...

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