Babel 17

Woops, I guess he’s actually gotten no encouragement from anyone, and is instead delusional.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/06/25/bernard-sigh-sentencing-deval-patrick-massachusetts/

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The ex-brother-in-law of former Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for raping his e…

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He’s going to need a lot of donors in order to qualify for December, and just to look credible. He’ll have to be surging in donors, mind share, enthusiasm, grass roots support, and organization, in order to not have his bid for the nomination called into serious question as being a net negative for the party, and actually hurting the party’s…[Read more]

Woops! I accidentally liked this thread that I started. I didn’t even know that was possible, lol.

@voltairine

I see a real possibility that Patrick’s run will be very short. But if he gains any traction it will likely come at Biden’s expense. The big question is; if he does decent, will President Obama give some kind of a subtle signal that he’s OK with Patrick being in the race? And would that trigger Patrick getting a big bump, and inspire…[Read more]

Lol, wow, the NYT picks, and the Readers picks, for best letters are generally brutal towards this announcement. Worth skimming through imo.

Good timing in his becoming a Berniecrat. :)

I welcome his joining the revolution. I hope he seeks Gabbard’s endorsement.

Soon it will dawn on a lot of lesser known journalists that the time is now to make a name for themself by getting on the Bernie Express. It’s a risk reward thing. Even if they though Biden had better odds, the reward for being in his corner would be small if he won. Other establishment journalists would dominate.

But if they crunch the numbers…[Read more]

Just starting … Ron Placone is in Australia. Steph is there.

@jimlane

P.S. I just remembered this.

She’s spoken to that point, and it’s a good one. As you might expect, she brings up our foreign policy as the overriding reason to run for the nomination. She sees sociopaths and fools running for the world’s most powerful office, ones who would put us at risk of a nuclear exchange.

And even short of that, that same bunch all too easily get us…[Read more]

Impeachment is political, and the ultimate jury is the public. What they’ll see are the standards that are being applied, so the pass that’s been given to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden is going to be on their minds.

What history has to say about the motives of those who impeached Bill Clinton seems to be getting ignored.

The voters see all the…[Read more]

The pressure mounts when she hits the bottle.

I think we all tend to forget how far away Hawaii is from the campaign trail. The cost of those expensive flights aside, she’d also has to keep flying back to D.C. to perform her House duties. Flying from D.C. to Hawaii, and back, on top of flying around the country, and I think we’re talking a real health risk.

And the time spent on those long…[Read more]

Only way the Senate has the trial would be because some significant number of Senate Republicans (not just Romney) will feel the need to vote to convict Trump. I see that as possible, but unlikely.

And if that’s the case then Bernie gets to give speeches as soon as the trial is in recess every day. What a great backdrop! He’d get lots of rest in…[Read more]

The guy who shot Mattie’s father in True Grit suggests who they are.

Who decides that the work day is from nine to five, instead of eleven to four? Who decides that the hem lines will be below the knee this year and short again next year? Who draws up the borders, controls the currency, handles all of the decisions that happen transparently around…

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@ohiobarbarian

Yarp. And I know Millennials who live at home, so when the landline at their home is called, the call is never for them. People who are folksy enough to still answer phone calls from strangers are going to skew very heavily towards thinking Biden is acceptable, and that Bernie is a scary Socialist (so says CNN and FOX).

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@flyingsquirrel

lol, good one. His role as Dennis Finch on Just Shoot Me had a lot of that as well. A funny show.