Yeah, in retrospect, one of the things that the Sanders and Warren campaigns really should have hammered home, relentlessly and even before the campaigns officially started, is that we need to be less afraid of Donald Trump, and more afraid of Mitch McConnell.

The more film I’ve watched, the more I’ve come around to Howard Hawks’ view that a classic film is defined as three fantastic scenes, and no bad scenes. It’s one of those definitions that looks puzzling at first glance, until you try and disprove it.

It’s a low-grade read, and I get the impression that Indy is halfway-convinced that this is yet another Associate-With-Whom-I-Would-Not-Associate-But-For-Extreme-Circumstances, who have to that point in the film repeatedly failed him. But by that point in the film, Indy is also just so very over everything that it…

Everyone in my family forgot my 21st birthday. And since I had just transferred to a new college and didn’t have any friends yet, I just stayed home and chilled.

Yeah, apologies if it sounded like an attack. It’s just venting, generally.

As a Warren supporter I have to admit she handled the attacks poorly by trying to dance around the costs. Made her look wishy washy to the left and a bit disingenuous to her more moderate support. That said, maybe there was no good way to play it because again, M4A might not be politically viable in 2020.

I think it’s partly that her support was limited to what you are terming “establishment” voters. Essentially, she was really, really popular among under-40 college-educated voters, but not particularly popular outside of that demographic.

Yeah, if Abrams was the “fan” of Star Wars that he always insisted (which, no, he’s a “fan” of making money and generic pop culture, but he’s also of an age and kind to look down on the nerds who actually get excited about the minutiae), then he would have known the canon to know that there’s a solution sitting right…

I keep talking to people saying they were happy about the kiss and my brain cannot comprehend how on earth they arrived at that conclusion.

Still 1000x better than the prequels. Although I’d be happier if everyone forgot the prequels, Disney movies, TV shows, and video games that stretched the vague world-building of the original trilogy way past the breaking point. I did like Rogue One, I have to admit.

“Look, I like Warren, but I just don’t think she can beat Trump” was a nonsensical, self-fulfilling caution. We can argue all day long about whether it was misogyny or not that propelled that argument, but, at the end of the day, there wasn’t any logic to it. She had great plans, backed up her opinions with data, and…

I didn’t say “Bloomberg caused Sanders and Warren to fail”. If anything, ensuring that Biden doesn’t stumble now that he is the frontrunner is a further incentive for Bloomberg to withdraw. I said Bloomberg’s investment is now secure, with the implication being that Sanders and Warren had failed. 

That . . . is a surprisingly refreshing review of the attitudes of a low-information voter. That’s not a disparagement.

Have to agree. Bloomberg is pulling out of the race for one, and only one reason: because his investment is now secure. The Democratic Party believes it has successfully scared the humps into line, and all is now right with Bloomberg’s financial future.

Speaking as a Warren voter, Bloomberg’s overperformance was still the biggest punch in the gut of the night.

Also, 99% of all political commentary as well.

I don’t disagree at any particular point. But I’d note that so long as we’re in Pelosi’s headspace, it’s probably going to end being six-of-one/half-dozen-of-the-other as far as which one of us wins. At the end of the day, Pelosi is a company woman, and she came to power both with a certain mindset of what the company…

“First of all, they don’t have a process,” Brazile declared. “They are canceling primaries. They have winner-take-all. They don’t have the kind of democracy that we see on the Democratic side.”

Fair retort. My guess is that there’s a lot of second-order implications coming out of this baseline misunderstanding of the voter base: the fewer rabblerousers there are agitating in the super-safe districts, the less headache she has running cover for the Ben McAdams’ of the caucus. Which in turn, she sees as…

Statistically, it’s because both Democratic and Republican congressmen dramatically overestimate the conservatism of their districts.