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thinking how Minnie Pearl

artappraiser — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:13:31 +0000

In reply to Yeah, Minnie Pearl - good eye

thinking how Minnie Pearl style self-deprecation pretty much a good sign of successful assimilation going on

Yeah, Minnie Pearl - good eye

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:30:07 +0000

In reply to Actually very intriguing! I

Yeah, Minnie Pearl - good eye for a bargain buy tie.

Actually very intriguing! I

artappraiser — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:20:29 +0000

In reply to There are criteria for

Actually very intriguing! I clearly am missing a lot of the jokes. What is the price tag on the hat about? Is he basically the Minnie Pearl of rap?

All that said, Steyer's tie hits me as a richer signifier, more irony. It's very WASP--Tartan!

There are criteria for

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 07:13:00 +0000

In reply to JuvieTheGreat disagrees with

There are criteria for wearing a tie while rapping - cf. the Hump:

JuvieTheGreat disagrees with

artappraiser — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 03:11:18 +0000

In reply to I wish Tom Steyer had stayed

JuvieTheGreat disagrees with you on Steyer, PP

And he backed that azz up right into history. @juviethegreat made his first ever presidential endorsement: @TomSteyer pic.twitter.com/RpVUbnKQlM
— Daniel Newhauser (@dnewhauser) February 29, 2020

Whatever Warren's up to, she

artappraiser — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 02:18:14 +0000

In reply to NEW: Warren super PAC plunges

Whatever Warren's up to, she's taking big risks as far as possibly alienating the lefty base:

Elizabeth Warren Super PAC Run by Former ‘Oil Advocacy Group’ Frontman

@ LawandCrime.com | 6:03 pm, February 28th, 2020

She's also smart enough to know all the purity testing stuff ends at the convention. Doing an "ends justify the means" at this point?

The current rules are Sanders

rmrd0000 — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:20:08 +0000

In reply to Obama's followers hated

The current rules are Sanders' creation. He was heavily involved in the rules that exist today.

I wish Tom Steyer had stayed

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:10:44 +0000

In reply to NEW: Warren super PAC plunges

I wish Tom Steyer had stayed out of the race and continued to pump money into Democratic candidates.
Is that a "SuperPAC"? I don't care. THe Republicans have crooked Saudi & Russian money, NRA money, huge billionaire donors, assholes like Karl Rove doing their PACs, and a variety of other legal and illegal sources of money. At this point I just care about someone smart enough to win, preferably understanding coattails to bring in others who will support an agenda. Do SuperPACS imply compromise? Fine, cut off that 10-15% of the progressive agenda if it's not the most important part and call it the price of doing business. Elections have consequences, being rich & embedded into the business/power structure has consequences. We're getting slaughtered except for Nov 2018, and we seem to have lost the focus that made those midterms a success.

Obama's followers hated

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:03:39 +0000

In reply to The Superdelegate Squabble

Obama's followers hated Superdelegates until he got enough of them.
Bernie hates Superdelegates because he's not tied into the party mechanism.

As has been known for a while, Superdelegates are one party mechanism to avoid suicide.
We may need it this year. It's less undemocratic than Caucuses - Superdelegates are people
who put in work, chaperone the party to a more winning position.

NEW: Warren super PAC plunges

artappraiser — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 03:55:49 +0000

In reply to The Superdelegate Squabble

NEW: Warren super PAC plunges $9 MILLION into Super Tuesday states.

Warren likely now has the biggest super PAC of the cycle, or at least close to it. pic.twitter.com/TOoIP0GW31
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) February 28, 2020

Here is an ad Elizabeth Warren spent $679,000 running more than 2,000 times in Iowa in which she said:

"I'm not cozying up to super PACs"

Now she has the biggest one in the 2020 Democratic field.https://t.co/kbpxbqbbZK pic.twitter.com/uneDmOGJ5B
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) February 28, 2020

The following USA Today piece is not by horse race junkies but by Robert Alexander, director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University, is author of "Representation and the Electoral College." Lauren Copeland is an assistant professor and associate director of the Community Research Institute at Baldwin Wallace University

Warren has revived her 2020 campaign and could be the nominee who unites the Democrats https://t.co/633vDvKIO0 via @usatoday
— Charlotte Clymer (@cmclymer) February 27, 2020