“We’re losing our damn minds”

2020 Democrats 20 Comments

James Carville takes a “fucking welding torch” to the Democrats;

We win all these voters by being relevant; we win by running on real issues we know we can deliver on. We win by contrasting ourselves with the highly unpopular policies of the Trump administration. That’s how we cleaned up in 2018. We don’t win running on mile-high fantasies that are likely to lose swing states and unlikely ever to pass through Congress. And if we lose those swing states, we also don’t win back the Senate, condemning us to four more years of majority leader Mitch McConnell. Do you know what the US Supreme Court will look like in 2024 if we have that?
 
So we’ve got a choice to make. Do we want to be an ideological cult that alienates large swaths of America?

They won’t listen.

Also, he eats mice.

I Want A New Country

Shiny Pony Western Separatism 112 Comments

Yes, it would create some problems. But it would solve the big one.

Alberta MPs launched a counter attack on Thursday after a report surfaced Liberal MPs have been pleading with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give the thumbs down to a new oil sands project.
 
The Teck Frontier mine in northern Alberta would create thousands of jobs and add hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into the province’s economy.
 
Alberta MPs launched a counter attack on Thursday after a report surfaced Liberal MPs have been pleading with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to give the thumbs down to a new oil sands project.

Whatcha waiting for, Justin? Go for it.

Oh, and check the replies to this Andrew Coyne tweet.

Here’s a teaser.

Up In Smoke

Shiny Pony 16 Comments

Continued…

Aurora Cannabis shares slid about 6% Thursday, after a report that the company is about to announce plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, becoming the latest company in the sector to move to cut costs. Aurora (ACB) , (CA:ACB) the most widely held stock of Canada’s licensed cannabis producers, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report from BNN Bloomberg that cited a person directly familiar with the matter. “Both companies have a relatively clouded path to profitability right now, very large operational footprints, a history of aggressive investments, and will likely need to raise capital in the near future (in our view),” analysts Owen Bennett and Ryan Tomkins wrote in a note to clients.

The Early Worms Get The Bird

2020 Democrats 34 Comments

And he’s hit the ground running.

Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign lifted portions of its policy plans from news outlets, not-for-profit organizations and policy groups, in some cases plagiarizing passages verbatim, according to the Intercept.
 
At least eight plans or fact sheets put out by the Bloomberg campaign copied material from news outlets including CNN, Time, and CBS, and organizations including the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the American Medical Association, without attribution.
 
In a statement, the campaign said the policies were sent out via an email newsletter service that “doesn’t support footnote formatting”, adding: “We have since added citations and links to these documents.”

I hear he wants to stand on a box.

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy…

2020 If Women Ran The World 34 Comments

Her party’s in the very best of hands.

“Honestly, the biggest thing is — I don’t want to throw it under the bus — but the app was clearly done by someone following a tutorial. It’s similar to projects I do with my mentees who are learning how to code,” Rahjerdi said. “They started with a starter package and they just added things on top of it. I get deja vu from my classes because the code looks like someone Googled things like ‘how to add authentication to React Native App’ and followed the instructions,”

@Nate_Cohen: There are more than 100 precincts in Iowa with some kind of irregularity or inconsistency in the returns across one of the various vote counts, according to our analysis, easily covering the narrow margin in the race

Heh.

All made possible when Pete Buttigieg’s comms director published a worksheet with the PIN and phone number to Twitter.

Another Oil Train Fire

Roadkill 14 Comments

The second in two months. But at least the environment is safe from pipelines.

“At about 6:15 a.m. I heard brakes on the train squealing, and all of a sudden they came to an abrupt stop. I looked around my yard, and I could see a really big orange glow in the air,” he said. “It’s just another sad day, because it’s a large train wreck.”
 
“I had thought of going that direction (along Highway 16) with a set of super Bs (semi trailers) that I drive, and if I had gotten close to the tracks and this had happened, that would not have been good.”

For those not paying attention: Pipeline spills are national news, burning derailments are local.

Not Guilty

Trump 106 Comments

They can’t even claim the popular vote.

Expect plenty more of this.

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