I blame Warren really. It’s a unpopular opinion but if she could of endorsed Sanders right away when she dropped out, combing her base with him would of sent a progressive wave into the nomination. Also, by throwing a charge of sexism at him she should of let go, all she really hurt was the one other person with a…

No, they just had Pete and Amy drop out earlier than they otherwise would have to try and consolidate all non-Bernie voters behind a “safe” candidate on Super Tuesday (except for the one candidate that might actually pull voters from Bernie, she got to stick around to pull more votes from Bernie on Super Tuesday…

100% The Dem establishment politicians are so much more effective at killing Progressive politics than they are at properly resisting Trump and the rest of the monstrous current Republican party. The Overton Window is a real thing.  

Precisely. Then Biden goes to a town hall and disparages Bernie by saying, “I beat the Socialist” which only deters unenthused voters. EDIT: Even though Bernie is campaigning hard for Biden. 

Asked and answered--because he had a chance of winning.

I wish they had not railroaded Bernie during the primaries for this very reason. It didn’t matter WHO we nominated, the right was going to claim they are a far left socialist any way, why not actually run a real socialist and see how it goes?

Goddamn do I wish the Democratic establishment were even half as ‘socialist’ as Repuglicans claim they are. Hell, even 25%. Especially considering that many Progressive ideals are very, very popular among ALL voters. But that message gets lost in corporate media...unsurprisingly. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08…

“The Gremlins are passing legislation!” 

Redlettermedia basically covered this more thoroughly. Why it would make more sense for the 3rd movie to be a sequel set in the White House. Clamp is president, Billy is painting his presidential portrait. Gremlins get out and cause shenanigans and also incite juicy political satire.

What makes Johns’s attempt to address to address the Joker question so absurd is that not only is the answer bafflingly superficial, it ignores the fact that Morrison and Snyder have already done the work to explain the changing nature of the Joker in a much more dynamic and character-building way. Hell, the current…

I’m seein triple here! Nine Jokers!

Who else slapped their forehead and yelled “FUCK!” when, just moments after Biden vociferated “The Green New Deal is not my plan,” Trump goes off on a rant, and then Chris Matthews goes back to Biden after reminding him that the subject was the economy, and Biden starts talking about how the Green New Deal was going…

“(He’s also already selling “Will you shut up, man?” shirts.)”

I love the idea, in theory, except the shirt they made has a picture of fucking TRUMP on it.

The debate was unwatchable — two old men who can barely put together a coherent sentence, talking over each other, and forgetting the topic they’re supposed to be talking about? I don’t think I even made it 20 minutes in before turning it off.

Ah, so exactly what one would expect from a hagiographical biopic about Gloria Steinem from Julie Taymor. Nice. I imagine its handling of class is similarly hamfisted, if it reckons at all with how petite bourgeois the feminist movement has been and continues to be.

I would have never guessed two senile old men yelling at each other would have gone terribly

Looks like every restaurant sketch has just added three new waiters!

Wasn’t Punkie Johnson one of The Little Rascals? The one with polio and the pet squid? How old must he be now? 100? 110? Good on Lorne Michaels, giving the veterans a go.

have they considered just wheeling a skeleton up to the podium

Joe Biden, that famously “energetic” and “strong” candidate.