Octopus Overlords

gilraen wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:35 am or has plans for a cushy Fox News contributor job.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:38 am I feel like at some point we as a nation have to get together and write the entire world outside of dictators and strongmen a long apology letter.

Remus West wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:42 am

El Guapo wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:38 am I feel like at some point we as a nation have to get together and write the entire world outside of dictators and strongmen a long apology letter.

ftfy

Kurth wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:20 am On the way to work yesterday, I drove under an overpass that had a dozen people with signs supporting . . . Marianne Williamson for President.

Exodor wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:42 am

Kurth wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 11:20 am On the way to work yesterday, I drove under an overpass that had a dozen people with signs supporting . . . Marianne Williamson for President.

Welcome to Portland.

Jill Stein had a disturbing number of supporters here, too.

Kurth wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 1:18 pm Yep. I’ve been here for 4.5 years now,

and I still don’t totally get it. On my commute every day, I see almost an equal number of Bernie Bro’s bumper stickers mixed in with OREGUNIAN stickers with images of assault rifles.

malchior wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:21 am I threw this into the deathwatch thread as well because the story had some legs for several reasons. I agree it is part Tulsi looking like the Jill Stein of this election. However, a big part of it is that they still haven't learned the lessons of 2016 yet. Additionally, they were lazy and didn't check primary sources; overarching all of it is the appearance if not the truth that they are overwhelmed competing with social media and are missing easy things. 2020 is going to be messy and we need them to be better.

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:41 am

gilraen wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:35 am or has plans for a cushy Fox News contributor job.

I think she already has one.

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 10:27 pm Putin must have sent down an order to his agents to help put the kibosh on anything that could hurt his golden goose.

Drazzil wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:50 amYou know Hillary really says Russians but NYT doesen't have the clout to print it without other sources and Hillary and NYT walk it back a bit.

Thats a hell of a mistake to make. There's a HUGE difference between "Russians" and "Republicans" (at least in Theory)

Gabbard's appearance on Fox news makes me wonder...

Pyperkub wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:33 pmI don't see Tulsi as as much an issue, because none of the Democratic candidates have had the decades of smears spreading mistrust. The disinformation campaigns are definitely ramping up, but they probably won't have the same effect as the Hillary-hate did because it had so much time to become the narrative.

malchior wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:53 am

Drazzil wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:50 amYou know Hillary really says Russians but NYT doesen't have the clout to print it without other sources and Hillary and NYT walk it back a bit.

You know that you could go listen to the original podcast yourself and hear her point yourself which wasn't about Russians or Republicans grooming her at all? Right?

Thats a hell of a mistake to make. There's a HUGE difference between "Russians" and "Republicans" (at least in Theory)

It wasn't a misprint either. People on the right were making a fuss and someone was too lazy to verify the facts and went along with the noise. If it was you or me, it would be an ordinary understandable mistake considering it is plausible. However, this was the New York Times and they are supposed to better than that. It is in the end another example of their propensity to broadcast right-leaning misinformation without validating its truthfulness. They have done it over and over. The irony of Trump complaining about #fakenews since when they do it...it mostly favors the right.

Gabbard's appearance on Fox news makes me wonder...

This is *entirely* unsurprising. She has acted ridiculously now and in the past and blew away her district support. She was almost certain to be voted out. She alienated everybody and ran over to whoever would listen to her bullshit. You can look back over her career and see her wildly shifting positions and easily realize that no one knows what she stands for because she doesn't stand for anything.

Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke announced Friday that he is ending his 2020 presidential campaign, hours ahead of a marquee dinner in Iowa.

O'Rourke told supporters in an email that he will not run for office next year. That means he will also not become a Senate candidate in Texas, despite pleas from some Democrats for him to take on Republican Sen. John Cornyn.
"Though it is difficult to accept, it is clear to me now that this campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully," O'Rourke said in a statement.

Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2019 6:55 pm Has anyone else noticed that you scarcely hear a peep out of the Dem candidates since impeachment heated up? I see Bernie and Warren in my facebook feed daily, but nobody's making headlines.

“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said at a roundtable of Bloomberg News reporters and editors on Friday. “What works in Michigan works in San Francisco — talking about workers’ rights and sharing prosperity.”

“Remember November,” she said. “You must win the Electoral College.”

“Protect the Affordable Care Act — I think that’s the path to health care for all Americans. Medicare For All has its complications,” Pelosi said, adding that “the Affordable Care Act is a better benefit than Medicare.”

Pelosi also expressed worries about voters’ reactions to the Green New Deal, which Sanders and Warren also support, that calls for radical, rapid reductions in carbon emissions. “There’s very strong opposition on the labor side to the Green New Deal because it’s like 10 years, no more fossil fuel. Really?” she said.