Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

By the way, if your point is that the Dems need a candidate who really speaks to those white rural & working class voters, the calendar is going to reflect that bias, because those voters are all over Iowa and NH. So Biden is going to be tested in a fieqld that is biased in favor of that group. We'll see how he does, if you are right, he should clean up. If he gets beaten in one or both of those will you be rethinking? If he gets absolutely clobbered in one?.

Maybe, because perception will affect donations after those early meaningless (delegate-wise), primaries, but white rural middle class voters are not the Dem primary prize (although they will be in November). The prize is California on March 3rd.. And that is progressives, Latinos, and millennials.

LessinBelize

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Maybe, because perception will affect donations after those early meaningless (delegate-wise), primaries, but white rural middle class voters are not the Dem primary prize (although they will be in November). The prize is California on March 3rd.. And that is progressives, Latinos, and millennials.

LessinBelize

Reason 246397343 to get rid of primaries.

(Recall when that "witch" O'Donnell beat Castle in DE primary? The normal Republicans around Wilmington voted for Castle. Then the votes for Slower Delaware - an absolute rat's asshole save the beach towns - were counted. That's the crazy you get in primaries.)

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I think the idea is to not draw any attention to the asset which is serving as your looted money-hiding spot.

But even if that's not the situation, for us, sure, renting it makes perfect sense. But if you have a $30 million dollar apartment, getting $10k a month for it probably seems ridiculous. Hell, I know people who won't rent out places they use for a weekend once a year and they're only kinda rich.

TM

Besides, if you suddenly need to get out of Dodge and use your carefully planned soft landing, you want to be able to show up and walk in the door of any place you decide to go, whether in the US, Australia, Canada, or England.

Look at it this way - lots of people keep a few different safe deposit boxes for some valuables and a few legal papers. These folks just use $30M apartments as safe deposit boxes, and part of the value they're holding is the box itself.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Maybe, because perception will affect donations after those early meaningless (delegate-wise), primaries, but white rural middle class voters are not the Dem primary prize (although they will be in November). The prize is California on March 3rd.. And that is progressives, Latinos, and millennials.

LessinBelize

It's the first year California has been early enough to matter, but California is also less than a third of the delegates chosen March 3. There are many more delegates that day out of the South (Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, North and South Carolina, and Virginia all vote then).

Now, the south is going to have more African American voters in the Democratic primary than white rural voters, but it's a pretty diverse mega-primary day. And it will take a lot of money to buy media for that day.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

This is hysterical.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

This is hysterical.

I don't get it. Since he's doing full body workouts, each workout is both an upper body and a lower body workout, so he's really doing two workouts, well, three if you could the whole body, the upper body, and the lower body. So three workouts four times a week (Sunday to Sunday), means twelve workouts a week, which means he's working out almost twice a day when he works out four times a week.

That's too much.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

This is hysterical.

Say what you will about Penske socks, but they taught us all how to spot a troll.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

This is hysterical.

Why I workout every day. No counting involved.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Why I workout every day. No counting involved.

2. The endorphin rush isn’t a plus but an addiction/anti-depressant.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

It’s early, but... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...warren-the-one

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

It’s early, but... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...warren-the-one

She. Has. No. Fucking. Shot.

This is what Trump will do to her.

Keep in mind, I love her, but I am just being a realistic person. I love Jake deGrom but know I couldn't hit his slider if my life depended on it.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

She. Has. No. Fucking. Shot.

This is what Trump will do to her.

Keep in mind, I love her, but I am just being a realistic person. I love Jake deGrom but know I couldn't hit his slider if my life depended on it.

The more I think about Biden, the more I worry- Trump's biggest negative is he's a hateful racist, who has very clear mental issues. Biden "debating" Trump may devolve into them yelling at each other- so now Biden is the non-racist with mental issues. I'd like a saner candidate in 2020, please?

We should remember the perfect storm that brought us Trump- it isn't going that way this time

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

The more I think about Biden, the more I worry- Trump's biggest negative is he's a hateful racist, who has very clear mental issues. Biden "debating" Trump may devolve into them yelling at each other- so now Biden is the non-racist with mental issues. I'd like a saner candidate in 2020, please?

We should remember the perfect storm that brought us Trump- it isn't going that way this time

Live shot of Trump/Biden debate

https://www.youtube.com/embed/c8172nw3beQ

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

We should remember the perfect storm that brought us Trump- it isn't going that way this time

If you think the excitement and numbers are on the progressive side, you're watching too much TV.

The progressive excitement and Trump rallies are all in states that are predictably blue or red. Or course you'll see lots of excitement there. The media loves colorful soundbites. The Squad and Trump rallies are ratings and clickbait gold.

The deciding crowd this time around looks like the same crowd it was in 2016 - Economic Populists. That's Bernie, Warren, Trump, and (falsely) Biden.

Trump already has the bigots locked down. I'd say that's half of his 35-40% voting coalition. He needs to grab the economic populists again. Bernie, Warren, and Biden can peel off a lot of those.

I hear a lot of pundits say the Democrats are making a mistake by focusing on single payer and immigration -- that Trump is leading them into a trap. That's true (although I think they may be leading themselves there). Those are not winning issues for Democrats within the Electoral College map. But Trump is also trapping himself. By slugging it out with Democrats in that swamp, he's wasting his own time and energy. All he's doing is preaching messages to his base. What he needs to be doing is focusing on economic messages in the Blue Wall.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

She. Has. No. Fucking. Shot.

This is what Trump will do to her.

Keep in mind, I love her, but I am just being a realistic person. I love Jake deGrom but know I couldn't hit his slider if my life depended on it.

I see exactly the reverse. I see Warren as the smart, authentic populist. Watch her speak in small groups. She knows how to connect. All this stuff about her being a finger wagging, annoying sort is bullshit. She's a female Bernie who, unlike Bernie, actually knows economics. And what it's like to struggle.

I'm not going to change your mind, and I don't expect to. But I do think many in the Democratic Party are making a huge error in deeming her unelectable. At a minimum, she ought to be in the VP slot with Biden.