Claude Taylor, despite doing a lot of good ground-level work to get Dems elected the last couple years, spent an awful lot of time insisting Beto had “it,” whatever the fuck that was. Once more substantial candidates showed up, suddenly Beto stopped being the front-runner.

Also, too:

ETA: also, devoting however many words this was to tear down a presidential candidate by means of a couple graphic-design people critiquing his typeface and color-scheme choices for his #brand is like the most bullshitty hipster-ass thing ever. 

There is some terrible, terrible oppo research on Sanders.

There will never be a Sanders presidency. If he’s the nominee, we’ll lose the House, the Senate, and the White House. 

Yup. Bernie or die, again, here at gawker dot com (or those assholes who voted for some protest candidate, or Fucking Jill Stein). Everybody else is a corporate shill or a tool of the oppressor or a DINO (which is super-ironic given that Bernie literally is a DINO as he refuses to belong to the party for anything…

When the Taliban blew those giant Buddha statues up, did you feel bad about that? What about when the IS was bulldozing and looting sites?

So now we’re going with “Democrats opposed to Sanders’ campaign are corporatist shills protecting an unjust system,” are we?

A couple anecdotes I’ve read over the years spring to mind:

“well, voting for austerian Tories didn’t do jack shit to help the majority of British people, who could have foreseen that? Oh well, guess we’ll vote for rabid nationalists.” -- England, probably.

Meh. I’m for using a more constructive version of what the GOP has been doing since Nixon, and shove the Overton Window so far leftwards that the “comprimise” position is Medicare-for-All and the Green New Deal, while the narrative is driven by fire-breathing socialists agitating to nationalize finance and healthcare.

Addendum: how old is that photo up top? Because there’s no way That Asshole is still that weight. Bitch wears big heavy coats, even indoors, to hide his mammoth ass. Look at the pressers he’s given this week; he’s even more bloated than usual.

Let’s not forget the three Es that comprise Microsoft’s strategy, 30 years running, for dealing with competition:

Folow-up:

For me it brings to mind some fucked-up version of The Talking Heads’ Once in a Lifetime.

Disagree on that, too. Manning does deserve jail for refusing to testify even after taking a deal (iirc). What she does not deserve is solitary, or any of the other shit they’ve put her through. Put her in some low-security tennis jail or something, like we usually do with uncooperative witnesses.

You mean with Glenn Greenwald, who is now serving up straight Kremlin deza on twitter?

I’d go even further. Snowden was a low-level tool who had no idea what he had, and passed it off to Wikileaks (which by that point was a full-fledged asset of Russian intelligence) in toto regardless, and is now living in a Russian-provided safe house with a Russian wife. He doesn’t take a shit without Putin’s…

Olivia Jade’s social-media shenanigans should be sufficient to convince anybody she had no business at even a middling university like USC.

Have you met their daughters?