Not to mention determining if cash payments would be the most Effective means of reparations. Like, I get that it may feel good to throw money at people, but what if it takes more than that? I want to make things equitable, not just give myself warm fuzzies.

It was. And it’s also something that other candidates are proposing and getting behind. She’s not the only one. Unfortunately, Bernie and Warren haven’t declared themselves on that bus just yet.

I understand that you have no intent to legitimize a path to the presidency. However, there is danger in legitimizing her statements and/or presence because we like some of what she’s saying, or how she says it.

Looking back at how the right leaning publications cast Trump as a clown, but “tells it like it is” in 2016…

Yeah. The parallels to Trump, and the Republicans initial response to him, are not lost on me. I’m having a real hard time with reading takes like this on sites that have been deconstructing that race for the past 4 years.

WTF

Right? If that’s the best case scenario, it’s a problem.

Exactly, quit legitimizing the right wing narrative of Democrats.

Her speaking affectation annoys me. Like most of my generation and older, it’s associated with “charm” and “finishing school”. Very upper crusty and waspy. It makes all her statements on wealth & racial inequality sound disingenuous.

We were halfway into that closing speech when the LSD took hold.

For real, it was like watching a Hunter S. Thompson character come to life. She was channeling Johnny Depp.

Nope to all these pieces today (at this family of sites and others) fawning over her for saying the bare minimum truths that progressives share in meme form on FB. Not to mention that the majority of her “points” have already been made by the top two progressives on the stage (barring the reparations commentary).

Doesn’t the next round of debates exchange the either/or threshold of polls and donors for requiring both donors and polling instead? Because there’s no way she’s cracking the polling threshold.

What is her plan again?

Magik, her plan is Magik. 

People were talking about racist dog whistles during the 2016 election cycle, but I’m hearing the anti-science, woo-woo, conspiracy theorist dog whistles loud as day every time she opens her mouth.

I know Trump sets the bar pretty damned low, but replacing a right wing conspiracy nut with a left wing conspiracy nut is…

The opinion and editorial columns have become a complete conservative shit show. Their investigative reporting and analysis is still good for raw data, so I keep them around.

And it’s quite effective with their base.

Which has been my primary argument against her the whole time. Having this shit on the debate stage is a detriment to us all. She’s the perfect vision of a right wing liberal trope. Even her “good” answer on Flint degraded into “dark energies” FFS. When she was doing her sit down with Anderson Cooper after, the banner…

This is the best possible argument against this bs Williamson stanning. When the Trumps agree with you, it’s the wrong hot take.

This. Is this how low the fucking bar is? She gets up on stage and repeats basic knowledge we pass in meme form, and suddenly she’s the peoples hero? Even when her go to solution is Magic?

“We were about halfway through the final statement before the LSD took hold”.

What was truly rage inducing was the Republican talking points. We’re trying to resolve our differences and come to consensus within the party, and they’re poaching right wing lies instead of having that conversation. Whether there will be a place for private insurance, and what it will be needs to be handled within…

*cringes*