baronvonj

We only have so many COVID cases because we test so much! We need to do fewer tests!

It's got electrolytes!

If she doesn't move to the Senate, yeah.

That's be an interesting ticket. I would like to see AOC primary against Schumer though.

She should definitely primary Schumer.

No, I'm trying to point out the stark reality to people who keep saying the DNC needs to give us better candidates and ignore donors. I'm saying we need to wake up and realize that we have to give ourselves better candidates because the donors are not going to. They didn't give us AOC. She decided she was going to run against the establishment incumbent and the people came out to vote for her. That's what we need, everywhere. We need candidates to challenge the crap-ass incumbents whether the DNC likes it or not, and then we as voters need to show and vote for them. That's how elections work. People enter the race, then people vote, and one of the people who had entered the race is going to win no matter how many people don't vote. We need more engagement instead of removing ourselves from the process. Removing ourselves only serves to support the status quo. The new head of the DNC used to chair a progressive minor party in Minnesota, before he ran for and was elected to the chair of the Minnesota Democratic Party. He wasn't appointed to those positions as some good-will to the voters by the DNC. He was elected to those positions. The party won't change itself for us, so we have to change it through the primaries and the internal party leadership elections.

Leo's girlfriend.

Fainting goats actually evolved from the fainting couch, an evolutionary cousin to the chaise lounge.

Pineapple's in northern Europe were a symbol of wealth and status. You could actually rent a pineapple for your dinner party to elevate your status. Pineapple theft was a notable crime. One thief was sentenced to 7 years in an Australian penal colony.

https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/stealing-pineapples-used-to-be-a-serious-crime/

Afraid of what?

Literally death threats from the Republican voters.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hear-death-threats-republican-senator-received-about-trump

Were eligible voters turned away, or did they stay home? Were eligible candidates prevented from running, or did they choose not to? Which candidates won the popular vote in the primary and then were not nominated?

I'm fully aware that the donors exert pressure with campaign funding, just like any PAC can do. And I'm fully against the Citizens United ruling and the corrupting influence of money. But at the end of the day any eligible candidate can still choose to run against the candidate that the donors prefer, and the voters can choose to show up and vote for them. There is always that choice.

The owner/donor class is never going to not use the resources they have just because it's an unfair advantage. The only leverage we have is to show and vote in bigger numbers.