It’s going to be really rich to see some of the Bernie supporters who stanned for Caucuses in 2016 turn on them on Tuesday if Biden pulls ahead thanks to consolidating the support of non-viable candidates. 

That’s a solution with it’s own attendant problems— chief among them that it would stifle insurgent/dark horse candidates even extremely gifted ones; 2008 is probably the best example— does Obama win the nomination if he can’t prove to African-American voters that he’s viable with non-AA voters in Iowa, but there are…

On the brightside, caucuses are largely fading away (2020 has roughly half as many caucus states as 2016 did); OTOH-- Iowa will be the last holdout 

Yeah...it’s shit like this that makes it almost impossible to indict much less convict anyone for police brutality 

I mean admittedly not as ironic as say the staff of Jacobin being a gang of Trust funders. 

I mean....that’s not super unusual for some of Sanders more visible online supporters- Jacobin is basically a blog for Trust Fund kids. 

Donald Trump Jr bitching about neopotism and profiting from your father’s name somehow perfectly encapsulates our hell dimension. 

Jesus. At least in 1918 the flu piggybacked off of the forced travel of a World War, we're going to take ourselves out eventually for the fucking clicks

Seriously, wtf

This is worse if (and I really want to caveat given how early it is into the investigation) it's how it appears-- JFK Jr was typical rich dude new to flying hubris; this was a professional

I don’t think taking a firm public stance early in an accident investigation is great move if your someone with a public career-- the downside risk is so, so much higher than the potential benefits 

To be fair to a lot of the press--especially at ESPN-- they've literally known Bryant to some degree or another his entire adult life and he died less than 24 hours before they made their remarks... Even if you're normally objective shock alone probably mutes your reaction. 

I think his age at the time is also a factor. 

Up until she was pressed on M4A in the Debates this was a needle Warren was neatly threading, now she’s been kind of thrust into this “Bernie-lite” mold where she’s getting hit by both the left and the center instead of pulling support from each lane

It sucks that both of the major British Parties were headed by pro-Brexit leaders in Johnson and Corbyn in their last election but here we are

The issue is that you also need centrists to get anything— be it winning the Presidency or controlling a chamber in Congress. AOC is like the opposite of a Manchin— both are basically unacceptable to a large cohort within the party. 

It’s also a kind of hilarious projection of how AOC is seen in left circles in major urban centers vs. how she’s seen in other parts of the country (which due to the EC are disproportionately important).

My only thing with AOC is when people talk about her as a future Presidential candidate without noting that it’d take an absolutely enormous ideological shift in the electorate for that to be even close to realistic given her positioning within the party. 

Yes. The “can you fill this paper bag with non-sequential bills to cover the Trump Suite for the next two weeks” test. 

The fridge hiding was one of those rare moments where I sympathized with Boris, who among us knows what we’d do to avoid spending time with Piers Morgan.