New Warren ad has very heavy #UnityCandidate vibes, with 2016 Clinton, Sanders and Trump supporters going direct to camera: https://t.co/q3kM8kPzvp
— Kevin Robillard (@Robillard) January 31, 2020
Read about @ThisIsJarae and @alegomez2125 to understand why this campaign is so special. @TeamWarren ?? https://t.co/c8Pgh2tXck
— Kristen Orthman (@KristenOrthman) January 31, 2020
… All campaigns are knocking on doors, all campaigns are raising money, and all campaigns are trying to get voters to commit to caucus. But none have been doing it as long or as hard as Warren’s has in Iowa. She has been campaigning in Iowa for nearly a year, with roughly 150 staffers on the ground and 26 field offices. And it’s not just about numbers. Observers say that Warren’s campaign has been notable for the depth of its engagement in local communities.
When a local animal shelter needed a boost, Gomez brought Warren volunteers to help. When a neighborhood in Des Moines needed help with their community garden, Hines organized Warren volunteers to pull weeds and till the soil. “I said, ‘Great, we’ll be there every Saturday,’” he recalls. “We fed folks in the community where there are no grocery stores around. We went door-to-door handing out vegetables to people.” Hines says the area near the garden now has several Warren signs that weren’t there before.
As field organizers in Polk County—the most populous in Iowa—Hines and Gomez spend their days training precinct captains, calling volunteers and directing canvassers. But they’re also performing the crucial emotional labor that keeps the campaign running: making sure Warren supporters stay excited about their candidate. That work has taken on added importance in the final days before the Feb. 3 caucuses. With the candidate stuck in Washington for President Trump’s impeachment trial, it’s up to staffers like Hines, a 30-year-old from Nevada, and Gomez, a 23-year-old from Pennsylvania, to keep the Senator viable in the state…
Hines and Gomez say they tell their volunteers never to bash Warren’s opponents when they encounter a supporter of a different candidate. “We say, ‘That’s fine, I like them too, what do you like about them?” says Hines. “We never speak negatively about another candidate.” That’s especially important in Iowa, where the caucus process allows supporters of less popular candidates to switch to another as the caucus goes on if their first choice flops.
“We know that we’re a lot of people’s second choice, and we know that if we start playing divisive politics that’s not going to help us,” Gomez says. “No matter who you’re caucusing for, we’re always going to be polite, respectful, kind. We know that’s going to win us delegates on caucus night for sure.” …
They’re hardly the only ones pounding the pavement for Warren. Hines and Gomez named their orange tabby foster cat Carl, after Carl Schumann, an octogenarian Warren volunteer who is one of the campaign’s most dogged local canvassers. Schumann started off knocking doors twice a week, Gomez says, then graduated to four times a week.
“I’m very impressed with his dedication,” says Gomez. “He thinks it’s the last campaign he’ll be able to knock doors for, and what better way to end his canvassing experiences than by trying to elect the first woman president.” As Gomez and Hines they were telling this reporter about Carl the cat, another organizer knocked on the door to tell them that Carl the human had arrived at the office for his canvassing shift…
Haaland speaks first — she calls Warren a "winning candidate" who can unite the party.
"Sometimes they say that getting Democrats together is like herding cats…. and I know Elizabeth is the person who can unite our party, because we have to be united to defeat Donald Trump."
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) February 1, 2020
Warren is finally in Iowa pic.twitter.com/OYN6I1zYYX
— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) February 1, 2020
So…Elizabeth Warren is stopping by a bar in Iowa in a bit here. The establishment is quite full. So full, in fact, that the bar announced it was out of glasses, so empties either had to be passed forward with team work or the whole would be cut off. Team work has ensued.
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) February 1, 2020
It’s the part of the campaign where candidates are getting emotional about the end of the Iowa Caucus and thanking Iowans. “You’ve made me a better candidate and you’ll make me a better president,” @ewarren says in Des Moines pic.twitter.com/cPimkaIwOb
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) February 1, 2020
Michelle Goldberg, at the NYTimes, in mid-January:
… I’m not going to argue that Warren has the best chance of winning in 2020; I have no idea who does. What I will argue is that she has the best chance of bringing the Democratic Party together. Warren’s increasingly explicit argument that she is the unity candidate is correct.
She excites the middle-aged women who dominate the Resistance as well as the young people Democrats need to turn out en masse. She shares Sanders’s economic populism, but as a registered Democrat who has worked within the party — including in the Obama administration — she’s cultivated more good will inside it. (See how quick Julián Castro was to team up with her after ending his own candidacy.)
Both state and national polls often show her with the highest favorability rating among Democrats of any of the candidates. When a recent Economist/YouGov survey asked Democratic primary voters about candidates whose nominations would disappoint them, Warren was last, with 11 percent…
She’s drawn huge crowds throughout the race, and people wait in line for hours to have their picture taken with her. Warren has almost a million individual donors, which is a bit less than Sanders’s 1.2 million, but impressive when you consider that Sanders had a previous presidential campaign in which to build up his donor list. I’ve heard from many people that they’ve never felt as passionate about a candidate as they do about her…
Obviously, the nomination is going to be bitterly fought no matter who comes out on top in the February contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. But backers of opposing candidates would be quicker to reconcile themselves to Warren than to any of the other front-runners. A Warren candidacy would not force centrist Democrats to make their peace with socialism nor ask young socialists to jettison their dreams of egalitarian economic transformation.
The better she does next month, the more hope there is that Democrats will be able to fight Trump rather than one another.
Believe us when we tell you that anti-corruption is a strong unifying message that can deliver a victory in November. And there's no one better to deliver it than the woman who has built an entire career on fighting corruption to help working families. #Warren2020 https://t.co/LBit4V7pwb
— Shannon (@TheStagmania) January 31, 2020
ON MESSAGE!
The only force that’s powerful enough to stop Trump and the Republicans is us—the American people. They want us to be discouraged and feel hopeless because they're afraid of what will happen when we all come together and take up each other’s fights.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 1, 2020
OzarkHillbilly
If she doesn’t win, it won’t be for lack of hard work, or passion, or thoughtfulness, or….
Baud
Next week, Iowa Dems have one last chance to prove that their caucus shouldn’t be replaced by a primary and their state shouldn’t be moved to the back of the line.
No pressure.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Haha, I had the same thought. The ONE thing they’ve done right is occasionally lifting up a great candidate who would have been swallowed up by a larger media market situation, e.g., Obama.
A Ghost To Most
It’s so cute you think there will be a fair election.
Jeffro
Just give me a candidate and let’s GO already…there’s trumpublicans who need their little white supremacist hearts broken.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: They’re skating on past glory.
@A Ghost To Most:
Doesn’t matter. We’ll have to win an unfair election too.
Quinerly
Good morning from beautiful Santa Fe!
Nice piece in my hometown paper about fearless hometown chick, Mary Englebreit. https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/how-did-mary-engelbreit-get-so-woke-st-louis-artist/article_2ea47f18-38b8-5b2f-aabe-8dbdb244bec2.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_St._Louis_Post-Dispatch_Go_Magazine
Baud
@Quinerly: Good morning.
karensky
Thanks for this detailed and inspiring post on this foggy Philly morning. I really needed this after yesterday.
Amir Khalid
Out of the Democrats-plus-Wilmer field, Elizabeth Warren has always struck me as the best person for the president’s job. I’m pleased to see her improving her candidating chops to match.
debbie
Nice thought, but there are plenty of churls willing to blow up the party, if not the country, if they don’t get their way.
Leto
@karensky: Howdy neighbor!
@debbie: You wouldn’t be talking about Donald Sanders supporters, would you? Naaahhh, those are just whole some, economically distressed salt of the earth people!
JPL
@debbie: That along with foreign interference means it’s going to be tough slog. Imagine the conspiracy theories that Putin will spread along with Fox and Rush
debbie
@JPL:
I am just so tired of the rampant stupid in this country, and not just in politics. I follow a FB group where people post historical photos. There have been a bunch of Riis-type photos of impoverished people living in Ireland and Scotland, and damn if someone doesn’t point out how well-fed they appear and how they lived in a simpler time. Idiots.
JPL
Washington Post has a map of popular food groups or dips for Super Bowl watching according to various State searches. Alaska has a pickle, dried beef and cream cheese dip and that just sounds so wrong.
This is my way of not dealing with what’s going on in the country.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
She has run the best campaign, by far. Given that there’s little daylight between her and Sanders on policy, the most likely explanation for her bleeding support to him is misogyny IMO.
The old white guy is still the comfortable vote for a non trivial portion of the electorate, even within the Democratic coalition. She bright, energetic, disciplined, charismatic, and has outworked everyone else by a country mile. I know some people just gravitate to Wilmer’s shouty hippie schtick and talk of revolution in the streets, but those folks would have been with him from the start. The people moving in his direction now, well, I’m open to alternative explanations, but it sure seems like a case of “sure I could vote for a woman but right one never seems to come along”…and probably never will.
JPL
@debbie: So the same folks will believe that it was really Ukraine and Hillary who interfered in the election. I’m going back to searching awful food recipes that I will never make.
Amir Khalid
Bianca has decided to hog the pillow tonight.
Women. Hmph.
No One of Consequence
@Baud: It *should* be replaced by a primary. And Iowa should *not* be the first in the nation.
We are not a demographically representative state. Many of us are old. Many of us are white.
I was born and raised here. I know some of what I speak. Many of us take the caucuses as a responsibility. Too many do not. However, I doubt percentages’ differences in engagement and involvement if you moved it to another state. What would likely increase is the cost of running. Des Moines metro area has the largest TV market in the state and I don’t think we crack the top 200 in the nation.
We suffer the slings are arrows, many well-aimed, well-intentioned — and know we don’t deserve the privilege we enjoy.
Know that at least one Iowan, takes this seriously, and has been a Warren supporter since she announced. Her ground game *is* good here, and I hope she wins Iowa and continues on to win the nomination and Presidency.
We need a woman candidate. We need a wicked-smart leader to head-up the clean-up. We need someone with a clear and comprehensive understanding of what needs to change for this nation to regain a positive trajectory for the people who inhabit it.
After this administration, however it ends, there will, quite obviously, be much work to do. I defy you to find a candidate in the race who has a greater work ethic than Warren.
YMMV, but this is one longtime-juicer’s take.
Go easy on Iowa. We’re good people for the most part. And most of us are quite nice and helpful. And we are so tired of political advertisements and door knocking, well-wishing candidate volunteers. At least, that’s what I hear most often in the office.
With great love, for a great community of jackals, from a great (if underrated) state: Peace.
– NOoC
Amir Khalid
@JPL:
Intriguing.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@JPL: also on WaPo, James Comey has an op-ep where he says everything is going to be fine. So stop worrying guys!
debbie
@JPL:
Ad blocker won’t let me see your map, but I found this one. I don’t even know what pinwheels are!
Cocktail weenies seem to be the favorite. Ick, I make clam dip with blue corn chips.
Quinerly
@Baud: right back at you!
Betty Cracker
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: That’s part of it. I think “anyone but Biden” might be part of it too.
Nelle
I was at that rally in Des Moines last night and those three congresswomen, Presslet, Porter, and Haaland, are sooo impressive. Can they run the government, please? (By the way, Porter certainly has a target on her back so please toss her some dollars.)
Warren’s husband, Bruce, and dog, Bailey, closed the rally. A crowd formed a line for selfies with the congresswomen. My husband fears me getting to close to Porter, in case I just hand her my credit card. We got our picture with Bailey instead. The dog looks fine and calm. We look almost as old as we are.
It was my first time out at night in over a month. I woke up several hours ago and The Cough is back. Rats.
Quinerly
Major union switches endorsement from Sanders to Biden, citing electability https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/01/biden-amalgamated-transit-union-endorsement-110153
debbie
@Nelle:
Bailey made the news here over in Ohio. Good boy!
Quinerly
@Nelle: I just got turned on to Fisherman’s Friend cough drops here in New Mexico (everyone is coughing, I do think the cross country Tijuana bound Amish infected me on the train to Winslow last week. ?). I had never heard of these cough drops. Extremely strong. Walgreens had them. I ordered some on Amazon. Great price. Everyone says the original flavor is the strongest.
Nelle
I’ve been listening to “Hope Lingers On”a lot. The last stanza and chorus lyrics:
My love, when honor is gone, my love, when honor is gone, in our darkest hour, hope lingers on.
My country, when justice is gone, my country, when justice is gone, in our darkest hour, hope lingers on.
I will not hate and I will not fear, in our darkest hour, hope lingers here.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv9R60CSQ54
JPL
@Quinerly: What a nice story and as someone who never appreciated her work, I’ve changed my mind.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Amir Khalid
@Quinerly:
They do warn you about it on the packaging. I have actually known people who snack on them.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
rikyrah
@Quinerly:Morning☺☺☺
Baud
@No One of Consequence:
Good comment. I wish you were someone of consequence.
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: That’s great news!
CarolDuhart2
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?: More than that with this #ridinwithbiden chick. I’m drawn to Biden’s experience, sanity, humility, and work ethic. I could sleep well at night with a #PresidentBiden. The people around him would be experienced and sane.
And for those who cite Biden’s age, Bernie is about the same age and is a frustrated revolutionary who won’t make deals with the centrist Democrats from the midwest and the south, so no legislation or policies that could get passed.
Baud
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
@Betty Cracker:
I think part of it recently is that some progressives decided to consolidate behind the lefty candidate who was ahead in the polls. Over the long haul, however, I do think misogyny was a factor.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I am sitting here, about to start my day. Tears running down my face, for all the obvious reasons. And then you made me laugh.
I ?Baud.
rikyrah
It was moving??
Baud
@WaterGirl:
That should be my campaign slogan. One up Ike!
Glad I was able to cheer you up a little.
Just One More Canuck
@debbie:
they didn’t have to worry about saving for retirement – they would be dead by the age of 50
Nelle
@No One of Consequence: Where in Iowa are you? I’m on the west edge of Des Moines metro. Let me know if there is a f2f here or if you want to meet up for coffee. Starting a new place when one is older can be a bit of work. I am meeting plenty of politically compatible people, though, right on my own block.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Agreed — both are a factor. I know several progressive Democrats who are Warren supporters now but thinking about switching to Bernie if he and Biden are still leading the pack when we vote in March. Won’t make a difference here in FL, I don’t think. Biden will almost certainly win FL.
Gin & Tonic
@Quinerly: You can’t get through a New England winter without them.
WaterGirl
@Nelle: I think starting in a new place is brave no matter how old you are. Go you!
rikyrah
rikyrah
@Nelle:
Sending you positive thoughts and healing ????
chris
OT Maybe the ultimate SlowTV. Cruising Svalbard. Live! For nine days!
Great escape from the fire hose of shit.
Direct link to video.
Spanky
Can a front pager go back to the coronavirus post and put Comment #11 on the front page? It’s an on the ground report from Wuhan by Qian. Long and detailed.
Nelle
By the way, Pressley appeared sans wig and does she ever do bald beautifully. She’s magnificent!
Quinerly
@Gin & Tonic: how did I live to be 58 and never heard of these magical lozenges?
mali muso
So apparently this happened…not sure how to embed tweets so editing to just include the text
Barbara
@Betty Cracker: My first choice is Warren but I might switch to Biden depending on the state of play on Super Tuesday. I don’t bear any personal grudge against Sanders, but I don’t see him actually being an effective leader and I loathe most of the people he has surrounded himself with.
MomSense
@debbie:
One of our major faults is that we choose nostalgia instead of history.
In terms of the election, we are facing an existential threat. Our Senate has chosen a monarchy over a democracy. The only question to ask about the candidates is which one can win and will bring along the most down ballot Democrats.
Our only hope is to win the House Senate and White House. Then we need to take drastic democracy saving actions immediately.
Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
Pack the Supreme Court
End the filibuster
Overhaul House Rules
Pass laws to restore and expand the Voting Rights Act
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Pass a whole slew of climate change, tax, education, and health care legislation
Prepare for massive midterm losses and reinstate the filibuster and basically do the equivalent of the bullshit Republicans do in States when they have a Democrat as governor elect.
It would be a much better use if Warren’s abilities to have her in the Senate if we get our chance.
Also we are in a situation where the EC math favors Biden and he makes a Senate win much more likely.
rikyrah
rikyrah
She is adorable???
Quinerly
@JPL: exactly the way I felt until Michael Brown. She pissed off a lot of people. I’m sure the on line comments to that Post piece are vicious.
Gin & Tonic
@Quinerly: Life is full of mysteries.
Nelle
@rikyrah: Thank you. You are a bright spot for me and so many others.
Sab
@debbie: I think pinwheels are those flatbread wraps, with deli chicken rolled up with romaine lettuce slied tomatoes. Costco sells them by the tray, so they are ubiquitous in NE Ohio.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: These exist. Also known as Wisconsin sushi.
JPL
@Spanky: Wow. Send your message to Anne and Cheryl. Thank you because I had not seen that.
JMG
I’m sure some of you know this, but the AP will report three (!) different sets of Iowa results Monday night, first choice vote, final choices vote, and delegates won. Since the top four contenders are so close to each other, this means three different candidates could wind up being able to claim victory and they’d be right! That ought to smooth things out just fine!
The idea the first primary states ought to be lower cost to allow more candidates a fairer chance has some merit. Why not just take all the states with 6 or fewer electoral votes, put ’em in a hat, and draw out two every four years? Those are Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware, West Virginia, Iowa, Arkansas, New Mexico, the two Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii. Most of them are predominately white states, but no more so (and some much less so) than Iowa and New Hampshire. I’d hope for West Virginia on the chance that some lucky cable network would draw Mr. Cole for a man in the street interview.
MagdaInBlack
@rikyrah:
??????
Cheryl Rofer
Quinerly: I am headed for the Farmers’ Market in a bit. Hope to get there at eight. See you, if you’re interested.
JMG
Oops. Forgot DC. Put it in the hat, too.
Omnes Omnibus
@Quinerly: I truly hate to say this, but it is obvious now that you have lived the wrong kind of life. Please go sit in a corner and think about stuff.
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: Dried beef is just wrong.
The Thin Black Duke
@mali muso: Misogyny. It’s not just for dudes anymore. Idiot.
Amir Khalid
@JMG:
I presume only the third of these results count. So why the other two?
Quinerly
@Omnes Omnibus: can I redeem myself if I return to those beer brewing monks outside of Abiquiu and drink more beer with them in that corner? those Tijuana bound Amish with the bad teeth on the SW Chief will frown upon this, I am sure. ?
germy
Chief Oshkosh
@rikyrah: See, this is the kind of shit that just has to be crushed by the next Dem admin, and in a very public way. The major and minor Cockroaches of the Right have to be shown that using the government to scam the citizenry is no longer profitable.
Will Biden, Wilmer, or Pete actually go after these people from top to bottom? ‘Cause Warren seems to have it as one of her plans…
germy
On right now:
Have Gun, Will Travel
NO VISITORS
When Paladin finds a woman and her apparently typhoid-afflicted child abandoned by a wagonmaster, he enlists the aid of a female doctor from a nearby town, but a religious fanatic then tries to bar them from entry.
Quinerly
@Cheryl Rofer: I’m running a bit late.. Because of this here blog. Hope to catch you. My goal is to spend a few hours with a vender friend on the Flea market side. She vends vintage pawn. Has turned into a good friend. Always has stories to tell. She’s an endurance rider close to 80.Rode legs of the the Pony Express reinactment and rode with those famous ponies in Iceland. I think she will be set up in her old spot. In the back where they set the music up and have those breakfast sandwiches. Flea market side. You can text me or email me. Hope to see you!
Chief Oshkosh
@chris: That is very cool! Thanks!
MomSense
@JMG:
Please take Maine off the list. Having lived through the bullshit that was the Bush summer vacation, I don’t want the press here talking to our diner goers and making a mess of things.
Quinerly
@Gin & Tonic: amaze balls…..
Omnes Omnibus
@Quinerly: It’s worth a try.
Nelle
@Quinerly: Don’t underestimate what they are up to during Rumspringa (the time for the young Amish to sample the world to test their affirmation of faith) and what happens back behind the barn…
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Nelle: Thanks for that. It’s beautiful.
@JMG: Oh dear god, why? One of the good things about Iowa is that the two round voting system usually winnows the field and shows you who people’s second choice is, which matters. Sounds like they’re going to throw that away.
Quinerly
@rikyrah: Good morning from me. Tribe of one. Weird with no Poco. I’m standing strong on no adoption while here. I have had several Pueblo puppies again shoved at me by children. It’s like 2014 all over again when Leo died on this trip. Traveling without a pup is different. I am very sure I will take my time. Have a great day!
debbie
@MomSense:
No argument with anything in your list, but I’d be plenty happy to keep the House and get the White House back. I wouldn’t count it as a loss.
debbie
@Sab:
Ah. I’ve had those.
I’ve been catching up on threads and wanted to let you know how sorry I am for your and your family’s loss. It always sucks.
JMG
@Amir Khalid: They are the closest thing to a popular vote in the caucus system, so the data-starved political press needs them for more and hotter takes.
JMG
@MomSense: Wouldn’t you enjoy the burn from New Hampshire if Maine went first?
Gin & Tonic
@Quinerly:
¿Que?
Ideas, newsletter, &c.
Immanentize
@germy:
Palidin
MomSense
@JMG:
No. We are the oldest, whitest state in the country. We are sparsely populated and impossible to canvas in much of the state.
Let’s build the Democratic infrastructure in more diverse states.
Quinerly
@Gin & Tonic: It’s quite a drive up there. Essentially a one way road and the time I did it, it was muddy. A few years back. You have to back up or pull over to let cars coming in the opposite direction pass.
https://christdesert.org/
My inner 12 year old boy giggled over the sign “Big Eddie Pull Out.” Just how big was Big Eddie and why did he “pull out? ”
I’ll see myself out. ?
Immanentize
Obviously, States don’t want to have one set of dates for the Republican primaries and another for the Democratis ones. I think it is going to be hard to get Republicans to agree to our timeline these days, which means the Democrats will have to be willing to pay for their primaries on their own in a number of states if we change schedules. I think this is a good investment. But shaking Iowa and New Hampshire loose is not just a matter of scheduling.
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: BTW, in a long-dead thread the other day I figured out that your hapless spelling was an effort at selská omáčka. Which is basically gravy.
Immanentize
@Quinerly: I think you sound like you are an awesome tribe as you travel, even if on your own.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: New Mexico is our Belgium?
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: Who knew?
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: Yes you are right on omacka — that alone means gravy, no? I’m not sure on the shieshki. I don’t have the fancy accents available. Well, I do, but….
I will have to copy out the recipe — with spellings — from the old Czech/Moravian cookbook I have.
It’s funny now that you say it, but many Italians I know call marinara and offshoots, just “gravy.” Or as my friend’s Nonna said, “Sunday gravy.”. The gravy I make is sorta similar.
Quinerly
@Nelle: I have been kidding about the hoards of Amish on the SW Chief. Women were friendly (The Mennonites have taken over the area near where I grew up in NC. Amish with electricity ? and catfish farms). Kidding aside, just before the train trip from Little Vegas to Winslow I had read a big piece on line about the systematic sexual abuse in the Amish community. Kinda dampened my enthusiasm to engage on the train. Ended up spending most of the return 8 hr trip back to Little Vegas with a cute Australian Blues musician who had been to some sort of conference in LA and was on his way to Chicago on a whim to experience “Chicago Blues.” I don’t think the old Amish men approved of the over priced Stella we were drinking in the observation car. I got some side looks from a couple of wives. They were smiling.
MomSense
Trump added six countries to the Muslim Ban yesterday. Fuck King Minus.
WaterGirl
@Spanky: This currently seems to be part of Anne Laurie’s beat, so I copied the on-the-ground-report comment and sent her your request by email.
So Anne Laurie has the information, at least.
Quinerly
@Immanentize: I don’t think I could travel day to day with another person. I have become incredibly selfish on these trips. ?
Quinerly
@Omnes Omnibus: ?
MomSense
@debbie:
On the one hand, I agree. On the other, I think we are at death of the Republic stage and we can’t save it without the Senate. I’m not even sure we can save it.
Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray
@Immanentize: Selská in Czech or silska in Slovakian just means “rural” or “country-style”
WaterGirl
@JPL: I sent that to Anne Laurie because she has been covering the virus situation daily.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: I’ve said this before. First, stop the bleeding. Second, try to save the leg. Then, worry about whether we can run marathons again. We are at the stop the bleeding stage. I’ll take getting the presidency and keeping the House. I’ll certainly work for more, but if we get just that in November I’ll sleep well knowing we did a good job.
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray: Well that would well describe my relatives before getting on the boat.
WaterGirl
@germy: I used to love that show. How does it hold up?
Besides the content, which apparently was prescient.
debbie
@Immanentize:
Better just to get rid of caucuses. Then we can work on getting primaries to be closed.
WaterGirl
@JMG:
I think it’s great! Traditionally, there has been so much weight put on Iowa, that I think it’s great that we get to see the results of the first round and the vote totals, not just the delegates.
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
As you can see, I had the opposite reaction. I’m guessing this is their way of hoping to tamp down the Iowa-shouoldn’t-get-to-go-first hate.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
I used to be where you are, but I think it’s much worse than we are acknowledging. Dems seem to be following the usual primary pattern of fighting about policies when the real issue is to stop this march to authoritarianism. We are not communicating the urgency of our situation.
Cheryl Rofer
@Quinerly: I am back home from the Farmers’ Market. Checked the Museo flea market. Looks like the Farmers’ Marketers are earlier risers than the flea marketers!
WaterGirl
@MomSense:
Totally agree.
debbie
@MomSense:
And I think that is the real point. Dems talk about crises, but not what caused them, namely, the specific GOP policies that led to the urgent situation. They have got to name names.
Schiff or some other manager needs to use his/her time on Monday to dissemble each and every defense offered by Sekulow and his fellow idiots. One sentence for each defense is all it would take. As one example, “Dershowitz is only an armchair Constitutional lawyer.” Divide up the defenses among them and get the bogusness of each out and into the public square.
I nominate Kay to write their arguments.
Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray
@WaterGirl: BTW, on a phone, the banner ad at the top covers the navigation arrow buttons. It takes two steps to close the ad and move it out of the way. Safari on iPhone.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray: This is true. It only started a couple of days ago for me.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray:
On my iPad, it covers the entire screen. Unbidden.
Kattails
@Barbara: If you loathe most of the people Wilmer has surrounded himself with now, it will get exponentially worse if he were to become president. Those surrogates are his behind-the-mask alter egos allowed to run loose.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@WaterGirl: I’m not invested in Iowa’s process. It was fun to be part of it in 2008, but it did keep me from participating for years when I had to travel for work. I think this year the election results are just so important that everything gets magnified.
I’m just glad we’re finally getting to the voting stage.
bemused
@Quinerly:
Wow. Her work was too cotton candy cutsie for me so what fun to see her other snarky dark side. Her Engeldark cards are great and I’ll be checking out all of her Engeldark line. I’m definitely a fan now.
Sab
@debbie: Thank you.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray: Thanks. I just heard about this yesterday. I sent email to John:
WaterGirl
@debbie: I sent you email this morning. Would it be possible for you to get me a screen capture?
Jinchi
This only works if the person in the White House shares that agenda. Biden is the candidate of nostalgia. He is not the one who is going to champion the drastic action you think is needed. For that, you need an advocate in the White House.
He thinks getting rid of the filibuster would be “a disaster”. He opposes packing the Supreme Court. He doesn’t support eliminating the Electoral College. He wants to pursue a tepid “middle ground” approach to climate legislation and he is the only candidate who is strangely silent about statehood for Puerto Rico.
Pretty much every other candidate is better if you’re hoping for drastic change.
Sab
@Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray: Same on my Android Nook. Seems to be less of a problem if I view it lamdscape instead of portrait.
MomSense
@Jinchi:
Biden isn’t running for Senate. He’s saying what he needs to get elected. He’ll have the same administration as any other Democratic nominee. The list of people who can do the job and pass the vetting for cabinet posts is a pretty short list.
Biden expands the electoral map because he does well against trump in those Midwest states he lost – the others not so much. They will have to make up those EC votes somewhere else.
germy
@WaterGirl: It holds up rather well. Messages of tolerance, etc.
Immanentize
@MomSense: I agree with all of this. But I’m still voting for Warren.?
MomSense
@Jinchi:
I’m not hoping for drastic change. We have to win first. In fact I’m of the opinion that all the idiots who voted for Nader or Stein or any other third party because they thought there wasn’t enough difference between the two parties really screwed us. If we had gone with slow and steady progress by regular Dems, plus a much better Supreme Court and better Judges, we would be way Fucking ahead of where we are now. We wouldn’t have had all the wars, the global financial crisis, and lack of action on climate change.
MomSense
@Immanentize:
A lot of people are. I don’t get it, but I’m a minority here.
WaterGirl
@germy: In my late twenties, I used to say I watched Rawhide on Sunday mornings instead of going to church, because they always treated people right and did the right thing.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: In spite of having always really liked Joe Biden, I was totally pissed when Joe announced. Too old. Yes. Too out of touch. Yes. Not understanding that it’s a new world and people need personal space. Yes. Coming off as weak and old, which is more critical than age itself. Yes.
But he’s gotten fired up, and I think the odds of beating Trump go up with Biden. So I will vote for Joe.
Barack Obama always talks about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. That’s where I am on this. And Joe can make up a lot of ground re: my concerns if he chooses someone like Stacey Abrams as VP.
bemused
@debbie:
Well fed and simpler life! The denial of history and facts is so deep in these bitter deplorables. I want to tell them to visit Ellis Island and take some tours at the Tenement Museum in NYC as we have but pretty good bet they’d go away without learning a thing. We bought Jacob Riis 100 photo book “How the Other Half Lives” at the museum and it just blows my mind that people can look at those photos, especially the children photos and say they look well fed. Irredeemable idiots.
Immanentize
@MomSense: my vote in Mass will not effect Biden’s effort in the slightest. I like Warren, I think she is a great politician, she is smarter than your average bear (which not all candidates are), and I came into this supporting the women and people of color and I see no reason to change that during the primary.
I’ll tell you one thing, Warren won’t whine “I was robbed” if she loses the primary.
germy
@WaterGirl: All those shows are on Me-TV.
We don’t have cable TV, so we make do with antenna fare.
jeffreyw
A commenter composed a haiku on one of the picnicking bird photos so I stole and tweeted it.
Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray
@WaterGirl: Why was that email not IN ALL CAPS!? My understanding is he prefers it that way.
arrieve
@Nelle: Thank you. I love this song, and I needed it this morning.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray: Damn, I knew something wasn’t right, I just couldn’t put my finger on it.
Jinchi
That remains to be seen, but the fact that he thinks it’s what he needs to say to get elected probably means he’ll think it’s what he needs to do to get re-elected in 2024. If you want action on any of the things on your list, he isn’t the candidate who will bring it to you.
The fact is that most presidents actually try to accomplish the things that they promise on the election trail, and they don’t often become advocates for change when they’ve run on a status quo platform.
Miss Bianca
For me it’s Warren first, Biden second, and the rest nowhere.
Jinchi
I agree, that would be a smart move for Joe if he could pull it off. It would imply that he’s come to some agreement with her on how to deal with the issue of voting rights at the very least. I’m not sure she’d accept it, though. She may think she’s stronger as a free agent.
PJ
@Gin & Tonic, Duke of Tanqueray: The banner ad is the worst. Sometimes I can get it to move out of the way, sometimes not. It covers the buttons and the top part of the screen. Complete PITA.
laura
@Nelle: I believe a jackal may have posted this a while back. Give it a go and see if it helps as there appears to be no downside or concerning ingredients:
Home Remedy for Cough
https://www.pitt.edu/~cjm6/sp99cough.html
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Sorry, I don’t know how to do that on an iPad Mini.
debbie
@bemused:
I try not to explode because I’ll just get trolled, but last night there was a photo of a small boy, grimy and looking very downcast. His tummy was very prominent. Someone actually said that was evidence of a well-fed child!
debbie
@jeffreyw:
“What are you lookin’ at?”
“I’m walkin’ here!”
WaterGirl
@Jinchi: She has made it clear in more than one interview in the last month or two that she would definitely considered VP.
Rick Taylor
@MomSense
I’m torn between Biden and Warren. Warren promised to crack down on the corruption left over from the previous administration, and I think that’s something where the President can make a difference. In the past I don’t think looking only forward after the corruption of a previous Republican administration has worked out. I’d rather not repeat that. On the other hand, we need to win. Are Biden’s odds that much better than Warren’s? I’m unsure.
James E Powell
@MomSense:
We definitely need a message, or set of messages, that attacks Republicans, their policies, and most of all their corruption. We always seem to be running on “we can do this together” while the Republicans run on “Democrats are baby-killing socialists who will take away our guns & trucks & cheeseburgers and surrender to the terrorists!!!”
J R in WV
@rikyrah:
Surely there is an indictable federal felony somewhere in that morass of fraudulent theft from those charities!?!?
J R in WV
@germy:
This is an interesting tidbit of news, but unfortunately, I have no idea where your news item is talking about. Upstate happens in any state with any north-and-south axis, likewise for the Capital Region around any state house city.
Maybe a tiny bit of geographical data would be helpful with this kind of post? Thanks!
ETA: The link to a daily gazette story, of which there are dozens of news outlets named that, yields a 403 forbidden error message, also too.
Sab
@J R in WV: New York, around Saratoga.
The Lodger
@WaterGirl: I see that on my phone, not my current desktop though.