The Future of the Democratic Party

[Dr. Medulla]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opr ... a9b787e7d4?

Good lord. And the horrible thing is we can no longer rule out this kind of idiocy. Maybe celebrity candidates is evidence that Western democracies are truly managerial states now and the executive is purely ceremonial, there to make us feel happy or angry, but not actually meaningfully engage in policy. Maybe Jimmy Carter was the last textbook president.

[eumaas]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opr ... a9b787e7d4?

Good lord. And the horrible thing is we can no longer rule out this kind of idiocy. Maybe celebrity candidates is evidence that Western democracies are truly managerial states now and the executive is purely ceremonial, there to make us feel happy or angry, but not actually meaningfully engage in policy. Maybe Jimmy Carter was the last textbook president.

Oy, doesn't seem likely she'll pull an Engels, does it?

[Dr. Medulla]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opr ... a9b787e7d4?

Good lord. And the horrible thing is we can no longer rule out this kind of idiocy. Maybe celebrity candidates is evidence that Western democracies are truly managerial states now and the executive is purely ceremonial, there to make us feel happy or angry, but not actually meaningfully engage in policy. Maybe Jimmy Carter was the last textbook president.

Oy, doesn't seem likely she'll pull an Engels, does it?

You've got me stumped on the reference.

[eumaas]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opr ... a9b787e7d4?

Good lord. And the horrible thing is we can no longer rule out this kind of idiocy. Maybe celebrity candidates is evidence that Western democracies are truly managerial states now and the executive is purely ceremonial, there to make us feel happy or angry, but not actually meaningfully engage in policy. Maybe Jimmy Carter was the last textbook president.

Oy, doesn't seem likely she'll pull an Engels, does it?

You've got me stumped on the reference.

A bourgeois class traitor.

[Dr. Medulla]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opr ... a9b787e7d4?

Good lord. And the horrible thing is we can no longer rule out this kind of idiocy. Maybe celebrity candidates is evidence that Western democracies are truly managerial states now and the executive is purely ceremonial, there to make us feel happy or angry, but not actually meaningfully engage in policy. Maybe Jimmy Carter was the last textbook president.

Oy, doesn't seem likely she'll pull an Engels, does it?

You've got me stumped on the reference.

A bourgeois class traitor.

Ah, gotcha. Oprah has been on my serious-ass hate list for the longest time for two reasons: 1) Her reaction to global warming: Who'd complain about it being warmer in the winter, right?; 2) I worked in a shitty bookstore when she had her book club, and each announcement led to a deluge of desperate middle-aged female zombies demanding their sacred parchment for the month.

[BostonBeaneater]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opr ... a9b787e7d4?

Good lord. And the horrible thing is we can no longer rule out this kind of idiocy. Maybe celebrity candidates is evidence that Western democracies are truly managerial states now and the executive is purely ceremonial, there to make us feel happy or angry, but not actually meaningfully engage in policy. Maybe Jimmy Carter was the last textbook president.

Oy, doesn't seem likely she'll pull an Engels, does it?

You've got me stumped on the reference.

A bourgeois class traitor.

Ah, gotcha. Oprah has been on my serious-ass hate list for the longest time for two reasons: 1) Her reaction to global warming: Who'd complain about it being warmer in the winter, right?; 2) I worked in a shitty bookstore when she had her book club, and each announcement led to a deluge of desperate middle-aged female zombies demanding their sacred parchment for the month.

What's a "bookstore"?

[Dr. Medulla]

Oy, doesn't seem likely she'll pull an Engels, does it?

You've got me stumped on the reference.

A bourgeois class traitor.

Ah, gotcha. Oprah has been on my serious-ass hate list for the longest time for two reasons: 1) Her reaction to global warming: Who'd complain about it being warmer in the winter, right?; 2) I worked in a shitty bookstore when she had her book club, and each announcement led to a deluge of desperate middle-aged female zombies demanding their sacred parchment for the month.

What's a "bookstore"?

A place where people with master's degrees worked for minimum wage as punishment for their poor decisions. Jeff Bezos freed the wage slaves a decade ago, allowing them to serve their time in coffee shops.

[Kory]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opr ... a9b787e7d4?

Good lord. And the horrible thing is we can no longer rule out this kind of idiocy. Maybe celebrity candidates is evidence that Western democracies are truly managerial states now and the executive is purely ceremonial, there to make us feel happy or angry, but not actually meaningfully engage in policy. Maybe Jimmy Carter was the last textbook president.

Oy, doesn't seem likely she'll pull an Engels, does it?

You've got me stumped on the reference.

A bourgeois class traitor.

Ah, gotcha. Oprah has been on my serious-ass hate list for the longest time for two reasons: 1) Her reaction to global warming: Who'd complain about it being warmer in the winter, right?; 2) I worked in a shitty bookstore when she had her book club, and each announcement led to a deluge of desperate middle-aged female zombies demanding their sacred parchment for the month.

Are you fucking kidding me

[Dr. Medulla]

Oy, doesn't seem likely she'll pull an Engels, does it?

You've got me stumped on the reference.

A bourgeois class traitor.

Ah, gotcha. Oprah has been on my serious-ass hate list for the longest time for two reasons: 1) Her reaction to global warming: Who'd complain about it being warmer in the winter, right?; 2) I worked in a shitty bookstore when she had her book club, and each announcement led to a deluge of desperate middle-aged female zombies demanding their sacred parchment for the month.

Are you fucking kidding me

No, not at all. And she and her audience all laughed that shallow moron laugh. I assume she's changed her opinion since, but it's that kind of dumb immediate reaction that sticks with me. You have a climate scientist warning of a catastrophe and your response is to think it sure would be nice to have warmer winters. Idiocy.

[Kory]

You've got me stumped on the reference.

A bourgeois class traitor.

Ah, gotcha. Oprah has been on my serious-ass hate list for the longest time for two reasons: 1) Her reaction to global warming: Who'd complain about it being warmer in the winter, right?; 2) I worked in a shitty bookstore when she had her book club, and each announcement led to a deluge of desperate middle-aged female zombies demanding their sacred parchment for the month.

Are you fucking kidding me

No, not at all. And she and her audience all laughed that shallow moron laugh. I assume she's changed her opinion since, but it's that kind of dumb immediate reaction that sticks with me. You have a climate scientist warning of a catastrophe and your response is to think it sure would be nice to have warmer winters. Idiocy.

"Am I right, ladies?!"

[Rat Patrol]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/ ... index.html

Centrist fanfic is the worst fanfic.

[Dr. Medulla]

New issue of the Baffler has a piece on the real Alexander Hamilton and why liberals love the Broadway version: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/hamilton-hustle-stoller

[Dr. Medulla]

Dammit, people, you have to separate the head from the body and bury them in different locations or else vampires keep coming back.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... woods.html

[Silent Majority]

Dammit, people, you have to separate the head from the body and bury them in different locations or else vampires keep coming back.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... woods.html

There's an insane arrogance in her thinking that the country needs her at this point.

[Rat Patrol]

Dammit, people, you have to separate the head from the body and bury them in different locations or else vampires keep coming back.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... woods.html

There's an insane arrogance in her thinking that the country needs her at this point.

Oh hai guyz! What's going on here?