And **** baby boomers. Worst people ever.

I'd get rid of Feinstein before Pelosi, but California's senators should be pretty much 100% safe to primary with no chance of a republican taking the seat.

Make congress sad again?

May as well be "make congress asses again"

I think, if polled on it, more than half of the #Resistance would say that "She persisted" refers to something Hillary Clinton did

Paging CPHoya.......

Hate to break it to you, but we're having the revolution right now. And I think they have at least a puncher's chance of succeeding.

You want a counter-revolution, but we don't even have a resistance.

I came up with this in five minutes, it's terrible, but better than what they've got:



You would be better off stealing from Labour:



Opposition like this is how you go from authoritarian to a full fledged dictatorship.

"Resisting" is not a political platform. That's what people do to ward off authoritarian governments. What, the Democrats want a permanent authoritarian party in charge so they can be the evergreen party of "resistance"? That's not how dictatorships work. They need to read their history because sooner or later the Republicans are going to imprison them, exile them, execute them, etc.

Our slogans suck but our policies are better...

Restore Sanity in 2018

I only just actually looked at that picture. That cannot be real.

Totally beside the point, but it irritates me when celebrities decide they're going to author a children's book because that's the trendy thing to do. Just seems like a slap in the face to Maurice Sendak or Richard Scary and all the other people who really put time and work into their craft. These are essentially children's books marketed toward growups.

Compare and contrast this milquetoast appropriation of Warren's catchphrase with Audacity of Hope.

Obviously what I'm about to say is beside the point: I agree some children's authors took time and care with the craft to make the book beloved by children first and foremost and that Chelsea Clinton book is basically written for milquetoast adults.

But I work in publishing/media. It goes without saying ~all children's books are marketed towards grownups. The marketers assume ~very few young children have the autonomy to purchase anything and the name of the game is trying to sell the cover to Mom.

Those stickers are a perfect representation of the weak Democrat brand as it exists right now.

By the way, "she persisted" is annoying and dumb at this point. Elizabeth Warren got shut down, which was absolutely bull****, but then what? She meekly protested a bit and left. You'd think she was dragged off in handcuffs or burned at the stake or something with the legs that's grown. She's not Malala ffs.

Anyway, not one of the stickers communicates any kind of message as to what the Democrats are or what they're about. The "other guys" might be bad, but they're selling that they're going to make the country great again. Find a message and hammer away at it until people in that middle ground can't help but associate it with you.

Listened to Booker on Pod Save America. I don't want him to get the nom, but man does he have the pandering down to a ****ing science. Talks a big progressive game, sounds super smart (he is super smart, to be fair), etc. He is super positive and I think that's legit, so I'll give him credit there.

Honestly, unless the left wing goes ape **** on him (and they would really, really have to press him, because he's going to lock up all other parts of the party pretty easily) I don't see how he doesn't win the nomination.

People are going to look at him and see the second coming of Obama (for one obvious reason), even though they have very different political and personal backgrounds and really aren't all that similar.

Like, Chelsea was a kid who grew up in the White House, she could draw on that life experience and give us something unique. What's it like being a kid in the White House? Do you get ice cream any time you ask for it? You could make into a book that kids and adults would actually enjoy reading together instead of a generic forced history lesson. Or maybe she could do a YA memoir, you get the idea.

The Democratic Party is beholden to these god-awful political consultant leeches that produce nothing but bland, soulless click bait for #theresistance. They need to all be banished from politics and replaced with the Chapo crew.

As much as I feel Booker wouldn't try to do anything earth shattering while in office, I think it's unreasonable to expect any liberal president to get anything done with the current GOP. If Dems can't win big at all levels of government and show people how liberalism actually helps their lives instead of making their lives worse like conservatism, aintreally much point to having the White House except to protect us from the worst of the worst aspects of conservative "thought".

Why is it basically every other rich, industrialized advanced nation gives a **** about its people but Americans don't? How do we make that happen? If the last election hasn't shaken the core belief that Americans are decent people, I don't know what willl.

I was really disappointed by that interview. Booker is real good about talking about a lot of serious, big-picture issues plaguing the country like criminal justice reform, but when he shifts to his "vision" or whatever he sounds like a clueless dolt. Talking about how we can't stoop to the tactics the Republicans use and that we should work with them and dropping in an anecdote about working with Ted ****ing Cruz. Mother****er, these people have been lying and actively working to undermine democratic institutions, stole a ****ing Supreme Court seat, are working to institutionalize the suppression of minority votes, and are working as hard as they can to destroy environmental protections, worker protections, and our nation's healthcare system, just so a few hundred people can afford to have multiple yachts docked around the world and you think progressives should extend a hand, yet again, to have it **** on?! **** you, Booker.

Which is why Chuck Schumer sipping Dom and rubbing elbows with Charles ****ing Koch and Jared Kushner matters. The current crop of Democrats just doesn't ****ing get it.

Good gravy.


https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/882962075991113729


https://twitter.com/fivefifths/statu...63763741302785

The real lesson to be learned from Trump is that NONE OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE WORTH A DIME.

Clinton didn't just have the best Dem consultants and hacks, Trump had almost NONE of the GOP's. CNN had to go on deep dive to get Jeff Lord and **** to give the Trump side, all the qualified and experienced GOP politicos were on Bush or Cruz or someone's team.

And despite that, he won the nom and then the election. Trump's campaign frittered away a ton of money corruptly siphoning campaign cash back into his own properties, his ads sucked, his surrogates were embarrassments, he had to fill time at the GOP convention with like, rando Z-list celebs and people who worked for his winery. None of that mattered because his message resonated, and Clinton never even developed a message.


And if you think that has a partisan split, May had the best UK hacks, imported Obama machine vets and ****, while Labour's vets all hated Corbyn.

And then he went out fatally wounded May with stuff like this:

I think there is some merit to having political veterans to understand how big institutions operate, but the longer people spend in political towns working in politics, the less able they are to speak to and connect with people who live outside politics. And ****ing focus group-testing of messaging clearly is a poor substitute for someone speaking in a way that isn't as polished and custom-tailored to not offend anyone.

you mean Richard Scarry?

some of the first books i ever read, along with babar and clifford