I don’t dispute any of that at all. But even as bad as he’s been, both in the locker room and on the court, he was the best big on the market, no? I mean Noah could do this too, but he hates LeBron James with a passion. Presumably Davis and LeBron signed off on this. If there’s a whiff of a problem you can let him go,…

You have talked me off a ledge as a Lakers fan sir, thank you.

A non-guaranteed deal seems nuts for Howard and actually very shrewd for the lakers. For Howard, it not only means if you make a bad joke after a loss and Davis gets pissed at you, you’re gone, but if you tweak a knee two weeks in, youre gone, all with zero dollars. For Pelinka/LeBron, it’s win win all the way. If it…

I can’t imagine anything going sideways here

Dwight: I swear I’m not crippled and I’m super depressed about my career.

All they needed was a warm body and they got...Dwight Howard.

Warren would be a fine candidate. But regarding the low-information voter, there are a lot of morons who will look up, see an older white woman, immediately think “oh it’s just another Hillary”, and throw their vote away either for Trump or the next Jill Stein scam artist (or don’t vote at all).

Trump would eat Warren alive. All that policy bullshit won’t matter when he’s spewing his toxic gases on stage.
Don’t forget: the Republican party is still behind Trump. They will also come out swinging once a nominee is decided. Warren will crumble and capitulate so fast you’ll think she was centrist all along.
I’d…

[Democrats should win in 2020, barring a serious fuckup.]

Here we have actual morals.

“I say this based on the very simple calculation that Hillary Clinton would have won in 2016 had she only had slightly better turnout, and in 2020 Democrats will be much more motivated to turn out and vote against Trump. Hillary Clinton’s voters plus a small increase in turnout among Democrats should give Democrats…

I have been working in Democratic politics for 17 years. In 2004 they told me Howard Dean was coming (he didn’t), in 2008 they told Obama was coming (he did, then became a moderate Republican), In 2012 they told me Bernie was coming (He got 43%. It wasn’t that close). The in-between years have been a lot more Cynthia…

I’m pretty annoyed at how the whole anti-Sanders narrative has played out. It readily buys into right wing/centrist ideas when it tries to conflate Sanders and Warren as being almost identical. As you point out, they are not, and not in some trivial way.

I came here to say this. I, like most of you, am TERRIFIED that Trump will get a second term. Of course I’d love to see a progressive just skate right into the oval office, but assuming that the democratic nominee is a shoe-in is reckless thinking.

We definitely need to energize and encourage potential voters, and for…

Lol, so the progressives should have back-door dealings to try and rig the primary in their favor. HOW THE TIDES HAVE TURNED BERNIE BROS!

Domestically, Sanders and Warren are examples of more or less parallel evolution — while both currently espouse a European-style social democratic welfare state, they’ve come to that point from very different starting locations.

I have been saying this from when it seemed plausible both would run. At first glance, I think Bernie should go ahead and do this for the reasons you state he shouldn’t have run, but now I’m wondering if it would be more potent for him to do it later. I dunno.

Democrats should win in 2020, barring a serious fuckup.