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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

In a serious take: I don’t birdwatch but have accepted a few invites to go. It’s not bad.

You’re outside, first of all, and you have a reason to disconnect from the bad news machine in your pocket. You engage your senses and combine it with just the right amount of focus. You’re listening and looking and paying attention but it’s not an adrenaline dump into your brain. And then if you do it right, you see this whole little animal that maybe you never saw or noticed before but that shares this planet with you, doing its own thing. And that’s cool. It’s some time using our senes the way they evolved over millennia to be used. 
 

I think you can get the same experience hunting or fishing or hiking or almost anything that motivates you to go touch grass, literally. 

You're not wrong, but it's possible to have multiple hobbies. I go hiking a lot with my dogs as well as playing games and doing other things that force me to socialize/touch grass.

Addictive things are only problematic if you don't practice moderation.

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5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

Hey, someone figured out that maybe Dems shouldn't concede to the Republican framing of every issue! And dunked on a dishonest reporter! Maybe at least part of the party is capable of learning basic politics!

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43 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Hey, someone figured out that maybe Dems shouldn't concede to the Republican framing of every issue! And dunked on a dishonest reporter! Maybe at least part of the party is capable of learning basic politics!

Hakeem J answering that question. "Well, (yawning), first of all, I just want to say that I don't think the republicans are 100% in the right on this issue...."

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Posted
12 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Platner is taking on water

 

Funny, this was published in the NY Times today and it sounds like he’s doing fine.  Comments on the article were also supportive. 
 

I Thought Graham Platner Was Finished. What I Saw in Maine Changed My Mind.

 

It would certainly stand to reason that a first time candidate would churn through staffers more than, say the governor, both because of a lack of professional network and because first-time candidates tend to need to hire fast due to urgency (plus, for the staffers, they simply don’t have the familiarity with the candidate like they would if they had campaigned together previously).  
 

I still think Platner is the horse to back because the other candidates in the primary are boring and he’s the best messenger of discontent.  

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13 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

The money guy saying the campaign isn't aligned with his professional standards is a pretty glaring red flag. 

Maybe?  He was hired in August and that tweet (errrr., bluesky post) is an even more catty bitch move than insisting you be recognized as the third of your name.  
 

I realize it’s politics, but Occam’s razor would suggest it’s more performance related and framing it otherwise is so his career isn’t hindered after prematurely jumping off the Swanson for MI Gov campaign.  

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34 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

Maybe?  He was hired in August and that tweet (errrr., bluesky post) is an even more catty bitch move than insisting you be recognized as the third of your name.  
 

I realize it’s politics, but Occam’s razor would suggest it’s more performance related and framing it otherwise is so his career isn’t hindered after prematurely jumping off the Swanson for MI Gov campaign.  

"Platner in Disarray!"

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2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Go where the working people go before or after their shift, and it will be delicious. 

That’s true, and Jackson Heights probably has the overall best ethnic working class food in America. 

 

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

More like this guy, fewer tired boomers

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3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

That’s true, and Jackson Heights probably has the overall best ethnic working class food in America. 

Also the home of Jackson Heights' own Randy Watson....

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So, that's pretty good.

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1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

The money guy saying the campaign isn't aligned with his professional standards is a pretty glaring red flag. 

Maybe, but there was this one guy who ran for president back in 2016 that had some turnover on his staff due to public controversies and concerns over ethics, and he did OK.  

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I know everyone wants Schumer and Jeffries to be something they are not, but it’s pretty clear that the next version of the Democratic Party (I.e., the one that can win two elections in a row) is going to be fronted by different leadership.  
 

I hate quoting him as much as I do, but @Bozo_Casanova has said (and this is going to be to his chagrin, but Ezra Klein just said this, too) that the candidate changes the party, not the other way around and I think that’s a better road map for what comes next than to continually be disappointed that Schumer isn’t a wartime consigliere.  
 

@wildcat09I know you’re out on Platner, but he’s so much better as a template candidate than trying to run 72 year old Sherrod Brown again or 77 year old Janet Mills. 

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3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Go where the working people go before or after their shift, and it will be delicious. 

@Brisketexan and I had this conversation years ago. If you drive around south Louisiana and look for the ramshackle cafe with a gravel crushed oyster shell parking lot full of white oilfield service trucks, you'll probably have one of the best meals of your life. 

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The "Beer Test" probably has a bunch of built-in misogyny. I won't say it's a good thing, but I will say that running candidates who are almost intentionally failing the Beer Test (which nowadays is more like the Long-Form Podcast Test) and then wondering why the party's leaders are seen as out-of-touch and inauthentic is a losing strategy.

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30 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

@Brisketexan and I had this conversation years ago. If you drive around south Louisiana and look for the ramshackle cafe with a gravel crushed oyster shell parking lot full of white oilfield service trucks, you'll probably have one of the best meals of your life. 

This works in Texas, too.  And add "parking lot full of police cars" to the list of good signs.  EXCEPT....for a super-shitty (and apparently, now-defunct) "barbecue" joint in Comanche.  Saw 5 squad cars in the lot, and pulled over to grab a snack even though I'd eaten lunch.

Was served a sad slice of gray, wet brisket out of a crockpot.  It was actually worse than it looked.

Every one of those cops should have their peace officer's license revoked for eating at that place.

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39 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

@Brisketexan and I had this conversation years ago. If you drive around south Louisiana and look for the ramshackle cafe with a gravel crushed oyster shell parking lot full of white oilfield service trucks, you'll probably have one of the best meals of your life. 

Bearing in mind I’m kind of a snob, this never proved true in my youth in Liberty, Chambers, and east Harris county*.  I feel like there’s a nostalgia for that @Brisketexan has perpetuated here that doesn’t stand up to reality.  
 

And let’s be honest, hungry oil field workers aren’t known for being discerning in their food, whiskey or women.  


*admittedly that’s not South Louisiana but it’s plenty coonass, nonetheless.  

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5 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

And let’s be honest, hungry oil field workers aren’t known for being discerning in their food, whiskey or women.  

Be careful where you're treading, motherfucker....  Hitting a bit close to home and all that.

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Posted
4 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

This shit should be so easy, it's remarkable how hard most Democrats make it seem.  

Do you have any idea how hard it is to get money from corporate donors when we have radicals trying to move the party closer to communism??? 

ANY IDEA???

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1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

I know everyone wants Schumer and Jeffries to be something they are not, but it’s pretty clear that the next version of the Democratic Party (I.e., the one that can win two elections in a row) is going to be fronted by different leadership.  
 

I hate quoting him as much as I do, but @Bozo_Casanova has said (and this is going to be to his chagrin, but Ezra Klein just said this, too) that the candidate changes the party, not the other way around and I think that’s a better road map for what comes next than to continually be disappointed that Schumer isn’t a wartime consigliere.  
 

@wildcat09I know you’re out on Platner, but he’s so much better as a template candidate than trying to run 72 year old Sherrod Brown again or 77 year old Janet Mills. 


I don't think anyone here thinks Schumer and Jeffries are capable of changing their stripes. I very much wish Platner was what he had appeared to be, it's just clear to me that he isn't. You'll all get there soon enough. 



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