Election 2020

[epilogue]

I wouldn't want to be the next president. We're way overdue for a recession, and probably a bad one.

the Fed agrees

[Bi_3]

I wouldn't want to be the next president. We're way overdue for a recession, and probably a bad one.

the Fed agrees

Yup. The economy is Trumps only safety net. He wins again, we slip into recession (better than 50/50), the red team is done forever.

[Mickey]

As much as I would love for that to be true, it's not. The GOP trashed the economy under Bush with just as reprehensible social politics, and Trump won less than a decade later.

[epilogue]

As much as I would love for that to be true, it's not. The GOP trashed the economy under Bush with just as reprehensible social politics, and Trump won less than a decade later.

yup

[epilogue]

If 2016 taught us anything it's that the idea of projecting (especially in absolutes) is stupid.

[Bi_3]

As much as I would love for that to be true, it's not. The GOP trashed the economy under Bush with just as reprehensible social politics, and Trump won less than a decade later.

yup

The difference is demographics

[bune]

Are you planning on murdering a lot of old white people sometime soon?

[Mickey]

As much as I would love for that to be true, it's not. The GOP trashed the economy under Bush with just as reprehensible social politics, and Trump won less than a decade later.

yup

The difference is demographics

Again, I think this is wishful thinking at best and delusional at worst. The primary identity categories of the right (whiteness and nationality) are incredibly flexible; the standard for whiteness has been altered before so as to maintain white hegemony. It is not particularly difficult to imagine lighter-skinned Hispanics and East Asians being absorbed just as the Italian and Irish once were. The idea that demographics will eliminate a certain kind of conservativism dates back to at least the early 20th century, and we're familiar with the end result of that pipedream.

[Mickey]

As painful as last night's debate was, this one is going to be so, so much worse.

[BurtReynolds]

I just wish one of these motherfuckers would go off script. Stop playing by the rules you were given. Frankly, like trump did.

Apparently it takes a malignant narcissist to do that, and that's depressing. What do these losers in the single digits have to be afraid of? They're already dead. Say what we're all thinking (hopefully): this is all a sham.

[verb_to_trust]

Tulsi is bae

[Mickey]

Tulsi is bae

Lmao of course you think that

[tree_]

Harris is too emotional

[verb_to_trust]

Harris is too emotional

Why does she get time on every question, even when it's not directed at her?

[tree_]

So is Gillibrand.. and she blinks too much

[verb_to_trust]

Biden ain't it. I'm not convinced he doesn't have early onset dementia.

[tree_]

Biden strikes me as incompetent and phony .. and in it for wrong reasons

[tree_]

I like Castro and Booker but Yang most

[Mickey]

Everyone on stage tonight should be deported but Harris and Biden look especially bad. Stark difference between Sanders and Warren last night, who were both on their game. H and B look rattled and incoherent.

[Norah]

Mickey's right