If Mort Divine ruled the world

[HamburgerBoy]

The first suspicion I would have is that he treats the last couple decades as an unusual trend towards polarization, rather than admitting that the New Deal period (going up to the 1970s) was a time of unusual non-polarization. Our democratic system is polarized virtually by design, <Vox>and that's a good thing</Vox>.

EDIT: To be fair, I checked his Twitter...

It feels impossible to describe in a few tweets a project I've been working on for years, but here goes: American politics isn't broken. It's working as structured. We need to understand that structure, and the incentives of the players in it.

At the core of this story is "identity politics," but not the narrow, weaponized version we tend to hear about. We need to understand identity much more broadly, and see the way majoritarian political identities work, and why they're getting so much stronger.

~A lot~ of the way political institutions work now is by activating and reinforcing certain political identities. And that sets of feedback loops where the institutions polarize, an that further polarizes the public, which forces institutions to polarize more, which further...

tbf, first tweet I agree with and goes against my concern, second tweet is garbage if "majoritarian political identities getting stronger" is a dogwhistle for "white males getting stronger" but might make sense in some other context, third paragraph is kind of obvious but vague. I think Vox is basically total garbage, but I think I've seen individual Klein pieces that were reasonably cogent by the standards of American leftism. Like, most of the stuff The Intercept publishes lately is probably even worse than Vox, but the top guys like Greenwald are still reasonable.

 

[CiG]

Why Bernie Sanders Walked Back His Endorsement of Cenk Uygur.

It’s been a messy day for Senator Bernie Sanders. When Sanders, one of the frontrunners in the 2020 elections, endorsed Cenk Uygur, a controversial congressional candidate in California with a long history of making problematic statements about women and other minority groups on Thursday, the move sparked immediate criticism from Democrats. By Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours after Uygur first tweeted about the endorsement, Sanders withdrew his support.“

Cenk has been a longtime fighter against the corrupt forces in our politics,” Sanders said in his statement of withdrawal on Friday. “However, our movement is bigger than any one person. I hear my grassroots supporters who were frustrated and understand their concerns.”

Cenk gets his first taste of politics. Basically disavowed by his hero.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'll laugh so fucking hard if George Papadapalapa gets elected to the House due to Cenk winning the Dem nomination.

 

[CiG]

All because Katie Hill couldn't keep her hands off her campaign staff.

 

[Dak]

Papadapalapa

I loled.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

http://archive.is/iGyTN

Katie dindu nuffin wrong, she was a good girl and a victim of revenge porn, the fact that she was schlicking with her staffers is irrelevant, bigots.

EDIT:

The bath water had gone cold. The wine bottle was empty.

That's peak upper-class white girl nightmare fuel if I've ever read it.

 

[CiG]

http://archive.is/iGyTN

People have speculated that Speaker Pelosi or the party leadership asked me to resign because of the photos and the allegations about me. That could not be further from the truth. In fact, one of the most difficult moments during my resignation process was my phone call to the Speaker, a woman I admire more than anyone and whom I had come to love. She told me I didn’t have to do this, that the country needed me and that she wished I hadn’t made this decision, but she respected me and what I felt I needed to do. I told her what I told everyone else when I announced my resignation: that it was the right thing to do.

That the political way of saying, fuck off and take your bad publicity with you.

Edit:

That's peak upper-class white girl nightmare fuel if I've ever read it.

I chuckled at that bit. Oh the woes of the privileged.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

So the next day I put on my battle uniform: a red dress suit that my mom had bought me. I put on my war paint: bright red lipstick.

STRONK

 

[CiG]

STRONK

Alex — “A.O.C.,” as people like to call her — said I was a warrior and always would be.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

And tbh, I could honestly believe that she's just some liberal poly womyn and that her thing with her staffers was actually consensual, but the sheer hypocrisy of her, a #MeToo leftist (a hashtag curiously absent in her emo blogpost about the struggles womyn share from abusive lovers) pretending she did nothing wrong is sickening.

 

[rms]

Isn't the metoo movement against relationships with clear power dominance?

 

[CiG]

yEaH tHiS iS diFfErEnT tHo

 

[CiG]

So apparently this old clip about beastiality is being dragged up now that Chunky Yogurt is running:





Someone even made a fucking song:

 

[Dak]

Whoever advised him to run must think we live in the pre-Internet era.

 

[CiG]

I hope all these defenders of cancel/PC-culture keep getting involved in politics, it's really funny to see them instantly fall victim to their own tenets.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The fact that's he's running after already being ejected from the Justice Democrats caucus he founded makes him look like a masochist. And the thing that got him ejected was simply that back in 2001-ish he made a comment on a blog along the lines of "I have a high sex drive, I see a sexy woman on campus and I'm going to check her out". I bet he masturbates to fantasies of his Armenian co-host stepping on his balls and calling him a dirty old Turk.

 

[CiG]

 

[rms]

the first chunk of this podcast brings back her insanity real quick

her special was good though, most of it anyways

 

[CiG]

Joe really turns into a faggot when he has tards like her on. Love that after all this time she's still bothered by the reaction to her lighter story.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

The Enforcer laying the smackdown.