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I'm assuming it's a Scylla/Charybdis kind of thing

Here's the plan: vote for Biden and get your friends and family to vote for Biden. And also be a volunteer poll worker. And donate money.

Her options are really tricky and she's kind of in a lose/lose here. Rightly or wrongly (I lean more toward wrongly as I think a lot of her voters would've switched to Biden), a lot of Bernie supporters are probably torches and pitchforks toward her at the moment, so what exactly does endorsing Bernie accomplish? He's most likely not going to win, so it's not like she's closer to getting any of her items in the agenda. His supporters aren't going to forgive her either. If she endorses Biden then maybe he adds a little more progressive spice to his agenda? Hard to say, but at least she got to outlast Bloomberg after removing his spine at the debate.

Twist - she gives a double endorsement to Bloomberg and Tulsi. #boom

I have concerns with both on these points. -Positions of power: obviously some concern with Biden (as noted above), concerns with Bernie as I'm not a fan of many he surrounds himself with either. Hopeful both will listen to their better angels. -Bench/movement: Bern's movement is awesome, but both need to be willing to allow space on the bench for moderates (Bernie) and progressives (Biden) or the bench won't be big enough to get anything done. Again, don't know anything, but they both can probably be better than what we have now, so let's just hope we can get everyone else to think so too.

I mean, I did say "completely". I don't think he's going to be some progressive warrior, but I think he would seek to get some progressive items accomplished given the temperature of this election. Inversely, although I think Bernie has great positions on progressive issues, he's not going to be able to get very many of them enacted given the makeup of congress and his stance on the filibuster. So while they have very different stances on the issues, I think the actual outcomes of their hypothetical presidencies aren't going to look too dissimilar (which is why you should vote (and convince your friends to vote) for either if they get the nomination). I'm not telling progressives to vote for Biden in the primaries or vice versa, just eventually get your act together for the nominee in the general as either one probably won't be too bad (although both will be worse than Liz, obviously 😋).

Vote your conscience in the primary, vote blue in the general. That's it. Stop trying to play pundit, because no one has any idea how this will play out one way or another. This will be a game of incredibly small margins. Bernie may turn some additional people out, Joe might too. Bernie may scare some people away, Joe might not inspire them to go vote. Bernie is not going to be able to turn the US into a socialist haven where all of his wish list items will suddenly become true. He might get one big thing done. Joe is not going to completely sell the people out to corporate interests and will actually probably succeed in making some incremental progressive gains. No one has any clue what the correct path is for a dem victory, and either lane will be 10,000x better than what will happen if Trump wins. So stop bickering like children and just vote and get your neighbors/family/friends to vote.

It's too bad we she can't step in as like the COO to Biden's bloviating figurehead. Enact his moderate agenda, but add a little progressive spice to it. Actually get things done, plug the holes in the state dept etc.

Also, if Warren drops out, who else is going to keep biting at Bloomberg's heels and reminding everyone how terrible he is? I could see her campaign now evolving into a "spite store" against Bloomy.

Hey now, some of us poor kids with single moms grow up to have jobs that are very important to society, like law....oh wait..., yeah, I think skilled manufacturers may be more useful.

I think the really interesting part is when Brett and Lauren start to realize their lives are closer to S and C than Trump/Bloomberg as well: Are living paycheck to paycheck - it's a bigger paycheck and there may be some savings, but they also have bigger bills, the mortgage, student loans etc. If in a marriage, both parents are working Are having their children educated by a decaying and underfunded public system - or paying too much of that above paycheck to get them into a private school/ or higher mortgage for the better public Have little to no savings - they have some, but again, bigger bills Have little to no equity in their home - they might, if they were ever able to get a down payment together to buy that house Cannot afford to educate their children past high-school without crippling debt Would be wiped out by a job or health emergency - better able to handle the unexpected simple knee surgery, but one major care wreck could really tilt their world upside down The family breaking out of this caste often requires some generation to literally or metaphorically hit the lottery - better odds than the former, but the ability to afford their children's college and their children's access to traditional gate keeping institutions (the Ivys, certain prep schools, unpaid internships, connections, even acting/music etc.) is getting smaller

I will 100% agree with you on that

Daycare is just like housing and tuition costs. The costs have skyrocketed over the past few decades, while wages have not kept pace. There is only so much money in a paycheck to go around. The common response is "don't have kids you can't afford", which, yes, I agree. I literally don't care about kids, at all, but I recognize that they are a necessary evil for things like sustaining population growth, keeping us competitive with research, technology, creating new tax payers to maintain infrastructure etc. Having kids has become an unaffordable proposition for most of the population, but if everyone bowed out, then our country would collapse (see Japan). This is why I liked Liz. Her plan was to put the onus on the extremely wealthy for daycare (and not just the upper middle class types who also struggle with this). Our kids are the engines from which the wealthy derive their wealth. They should pay their fair share to educate and care for them.

Assuming the world isn't gone by then, those kids will then grow up, get jobs, pay taxes, and start subsidizing your old, dying self. It's a cycle.

I put in my stats, but it just responded with a gif of a guillotine

I somehow have excellent day-after-concert radar and have run into/accidentally chatted up Annie Clark, Karen O, Carrie Brownstein, and Kim Gordon the day after they were in town to play various shows. They were all just as cool as expected. Also, we used to trick or treat at Dimebag Darrell's (RIP) house and he always had a great party going/music blasting, was super nice and gave out king-sized candy bars.

Surprisingly great. Awesome soundtrack, great performances. I thought the rollout of Simon's top 5 was pretty funny.

Same here. Very excited to see how the Super Tuesday results shake out one way or another.

I let one of her TX campaign workers crash in my spare bedroom for a few days, which was a cool experience, but I'm ready to make calls as well. Do you know what the process is?

This may not even be possible (I'm assuming with the various viability thresholds it would be), but what does the DNC do (other than likely shoot themselves in the dick) if one candidate goes out with the plurality of delegates but another has the popular vote?

I'm not sure what the break down is, but it's likely that half of his NW could just be from his equity in these homes. He probably purchased at least 1-2 of them on the relative "cheap" prior to this real estate market rocket ship that we've been on.

This is going on my pundit resume

Holy shit Liz, light him on fire!

I never realized how accurate Fred Armisen's impression of him was...

Get him Liz!