US Rep Ayanna Pressley (D-7th) and US Sen. Elizabeth Warren pretty immediately endorsed Kamala Harris for president today:
Pressley tweeted:
Thank you for your dedicated service President Joe Biden.
And Kamala Harris, I’m all in, let’s go.
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorsed Harris as well:
She is a proven fighter who has been a national leader in safeguarding consumers and protecting access to abortion. As a former prosecutor, she can press a forceful case against allowing Donald Trump to regain the White House. We have many talented people in our party, but Vice President Harris is the person who was chosen by the voters to succeed Joe Biden if needed. She can unite our party, take on Donald Trump, and win in November.
US Sen. Ed Markey agreed:
Kamala Harris is battle-tested and ready to serve. She will galvanize voters and make history on Election Day. All in for Kamala.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-4th) is ridin' with Harris as well.
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Al Gore won in 2000 and had
By xyz
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:23am
Al Gore won in 2000 and had the election stolen from him in broad daylight by the Supreme Court.
Gore didn't actually lose the
By NoMoreBanks
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:23am
Gore didn't actually lose the popular vote, though. Like he lost but there was a lot of interference in that mess.
He "lost" the EC
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:05pm
That's like saying "We'd have won this baseball game if we were playing by football rules". There's no "winning" the popular vote because popular vote doesn't "win" you anything but a "you tried" star. However...Gore only "lost" the electoral college vote because of some truly shady behavior by the Supreme Court.
I for one am happy we don’t
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:45pm
I for one am happy we don’t decide by the popular vote.
He would have won the EC
By WalkingTheDog
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:03pm
If the Supreme Court did not stop the recount.
Yes...
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:16pm
...I believe that's pretty much what I just said.
Calm down
By deselby
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:24am
Events are patterns until the pattern is broken. Every race has its own qualities.
Even if Trump wins, Carson Beach will be open next summer.
Well, yeah
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:45am
*That* beach will be open. It's in a Trump neighborhood.
Typical blow-in stereotyping of Southie
By deselby
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:46am
And very easily proven wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/20...
Biden grossly outpolled Trump in Wards 6 and 7
https://www.boston.gov/departments/elections/state...
Aren't you the guy who was going off about not giving Democrats money?
Fine
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:49pm
Trumpier relative to other Boston wards.
This election is not the time to be calm
By Pete X
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:23am
Just a brief list of reasons not to be a calm.
Now, as your are obviously an older white man, this probably doesn't impact you directly yet, but telling everyone else not to worry their little heads is appallingly blinkered and tone deaf.
But yeah, Carson beach will probably be open next summer.
judges are ignoring centuries
By Scratchie
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:52pm
And all these years, I've been told that conservatives positively abhor that sort of judicial activism.
Even if Trump wins, Carson
By Rob
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:55pm
Site of the new Joe Moakley coal-fired Power Plant by 2026, if Trump has his way.
What's the sample size on that?
By brianjdamico
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:31am
n is pretty small even looking at total number of presidential elections, looking at elections where the sitting VP ran for POTUS would be a very small sample size. And how many of those were after one term vs after 2 terms?
Gavin Newsom?
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:47am
People are fleeing his state in droves.
Also, aren't people afraid that Trump will exercise his immunity, and make his second term a revenge tour? The major opponent for that is supposed to be a guy who survived a recall after getting his at best, dumb, and at worst, corrupt ass photographed out at dinner when everyone else was told they couldn't?
Call me weird, but I'd like for my American President to not conduct themselves with impunity.
People aren't fleeing California in droves.
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:01am
The state's population recently fell from 39 million to 38.965 million, per the US Census Bureau. I wouldn't call 0.0009% of the country's most populous state even one drove.
But the point is moot: Newsom has already endorsed Harris.
Two things
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:32am
1) Over what timespan?
2) What was the growth of the American population as a whole over that same timespan?
Sure: it's YoY, in which timespan
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 12:11pm
overall US population growth was 0.53%.
To put this in perspective, NY, LA, HI, IL and WV all lost a greater percentage of their population than CA, while OR and PA were not far behind. But they're all fractions of a percent, most under 0.3 percent.
I can't wait to see
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:52pm
How many peace out of the 50 states entirely, once a generation who turns 18 being fluent in at least two languages has the option to call it a day with the U.S.
If you speak only English, you're shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic when you change U.S. states.
"the option to call it a day"
By lbb
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:43pm
Believing that other countries will welcome you for no reason other than your intrinsic wonderfulness is the epitome of American arrogance.
Oh, no
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:36pm
I know it's difficult to get into other countries, and that they really don't want my sorry U.S. ass. That's why I cited the two languages thing: Opens up your options.
Al Gore would have won
By WalkingTheDog
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:44am
Al Gore would have won if the governor of Florida and the Supreme Court had not interfered.
And the Republican Party.
By Scratchie
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 1:52pm
And the Republican Party.
When LBJ dropped out Bobby
By anon
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:13am
When LBJ dropped out Bobby Kennedy was still alive. Sadly RFK gets killed, and that threw the nomination to HH.
Only one term in though
By tachometer
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 8:53pm
Gore followed two Clinton terms, Humphrey the two JFK/LBJ terms, Nixon the two Ike terms.
I think there's a certain fatigue that comes after two terms like that which Harris isn't under and could change that calculation.
We've been on "pit and the
By Rob
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:06pm
We've been on "pit and the pendulum" mode for many decades - or had been, at least.
After 20 years of FDR/Truman, it has gone: R 8 years, D 8 years, R 8 years, D 4 years, R 12 years, D 8 years, R 8 years, D 8 years. That gets us up through the Obama years. Mostly 8 years of back and forth, party out of power gets agitated enough (and/or swing voters tired of the in-power party) to swing back the other way.
Now... It has accelerated. Two single-term presidencies in a row? If 45 becomes 47, that'll be three (if his health doesn't crater). Heck - if Harris wins, she might be only a one-term.
1968 was a lifetime ago
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 5:42pm
Are you saying that something that happened in 1912 would have been relevant in 1968?
That's ridiculous.
You can't possibly be that
By Rob
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 8:38pm
You can't possibly be that ignorant.
I'm highly educated and fully aware
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 7:46pm
In fact, I'm fully aware that there are a bunch of scared older men who would really like it to be 1968 again are grasping at straws and making pseudointellectual arguments to cover their insecurities.
I'm also fully aware that the under-30 voting population is both potentially large and more than 50% do not identify as white non-hispanic.
1968 was 56 years ago and America was a very different place.
Moulton, who normally just likes to tell people to drop out ...
By adamg
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:15am
Even Seth Moulton is all in. Statement this morning:
Katherine Clark
By adamg
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:18pm
Says she is Team Harris.
Katherine Clark.
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:49pm
Katherine Clark
So do NPR, CNN, ABC, MSNBC,…
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:31pm
Yeah, my fellow Dems are “falling in line behind Harris,” because NPR, CNN, MSNBC, ABC are running interference by not covering the granular details of who she is and what she’s done outside of being held at arms length by Biden and kept in a box the whole length of her Vice Presidency.
Yes, it's a shame that Google and ChatGPT
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:34pm
and the like don't work when one searches for Kamala Harris to get a quick rundown of who she is and what she has accomplished.
There’s the media’s
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:48pm
There’s the media’s responsibility and our personal responsibility. I for one like them to be neutral and dispassionate.
I'm sure you can find the totally neutral and
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:51pm
dispassionate narrative about Harris that you're looking for on Fox News, NewsMax, One America Network, and other storied bastions of unbiased journalism.
The thing about cable news is
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:58pm
The thing about cable news is: it’s all an infomercial.
I don't watch cable news, either. What sort
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 3:03pm
of sinister narrative about Harris do you think the media (including search engines and AI) are hiding from us?
What news sources do you consider more trustworthy?
My search for background on
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 4:15pm
My search for background on Harris aren’t part of the public discourse/news. When the major news outlets start cheerleading for Harris, by only speaking about the excitement and historicity of a Harris Presidency and talking about who is “getting on board” instead of doing an expose on every aspect of who Harris is, the media and the power players in the establishment are effectively in control of the wind.
Once again, you are implying that the media
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 4:32pm
and search engines and AI are hiding something about Harris from us.
Do tell: what are the dark secrets you suspect or are privy to, and what sources of information do you trust?
Otherwise, you just sound like an empty-headed conspiracy theorist with no goods to show.
The media isn’t hiding
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 7:01pm
The media isn’t hiding anything, they’re goosing the narrative.
So where do you go for ungoosed
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:27pm
narratives? We goosing victims would love to know how you go gooseless.
The mainstream media, that
By Frelmont
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 8:57pm
The mainstream media, that place where professional journalists reach a large, audience of shared eyes and ears, that is where they should be reviewing Harris’s and her rivals’ records and not manipulating us with the bright, shiny horserace. Agency should be with We the People and not the Party bosses and their corporate paymasters. It is just as much a sin to assume the best about Harris as it is the worst.
Whaddya know.
By lbb
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 10:53am
Whaddya know. Once again, you're not answering the question.
You're an AI-driven trollbot. There's no other explanation.
What question? Consciousness
By Frelmont
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 11:37am
What question? Consciousness may be an illusion, but I am carbon-based.
The question that was put to you
By lbb
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 1:03pm
The question that was put to you, you disingenuous troll. It's right there.
Maura Healey joins in
By adamg
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:41pm
Maura Healey.
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:50pm
Maura Healey. I’m kinda rolling my eyes at anything my fellow Dems do, or say. My eyes are jaundiced by the corrupt Sackler settlement, appointing her de facto common law spouse to a lifetime on the court, Ma Leg. opposing DiZoglio’s push for transparency. Ma is about 25 on the list* for corruption especially if you exclude the opinion of local media.
*I found it somewhere, will look for source, but that should align with most folk’s view…no?
Where do you find this?
By ElizaLeila
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 2:30pm
I cannot find it. Where is this information?
Nowhere
By lbb
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 3:56pm
Nowhere. Babbling bot is babbling.
I thought so
By ElizaLeila
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 4:15pm
Babbling 6-day old bot.
I think it was this:
By Frelmont
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 5:00pm
I think it was this:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ranking-the-s...
“The least corrupt state, according to local reporters, was Massachusetts, even though in terms of federal convictions per capita it ranked in the top 25.
Of course, this method, too, has its weaknesses. It’s a survey of impressions. Some reporters are better tied into the political scene than others.”
So, how corrupt is Ma and how ties in to the political scene are our reporters?
Things are very scene-y and exclusive here. The Lion’s Group bringing out the worst in our music scene.
You think?
By lbb
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 10:54am
You're the one who made the accusation, my dude. And the best you can do is "I think"?
So, you don’t believe
By Frelmont
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 11:39am
So, you don’t believe Massachusetts ranks poorly viz corruption?
Goalpost-moving bot is moving goalposts!
By lbb
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 1:07pm
So, you haven't stopped beating your wife yet, bot?
You made a very specific accusation, and when called on it, you fell back on a lot of dimwitted hallucinations. Now you're trying to play DARVO with irrelevant, intellectually dishonest assumptive questions. You've now done this several times in this post. You're full of shit.
I'm *almost* impressed
By brianjdamico
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 3:23pm
You made a baseless claim about Maura Healey doing a specific act and were questioned on it.
You haven't supported the claim. Instead, you've cited a 9 year old article about public corruption across the country. The article is interesting and presents metrics that consider data related to public corruption but also describe the flaws in those same metrics. Harry Enten is a bright guy, really invested in data driven journalism, and I can't imagine he would condone drawing firm conclusions on today's current events based on his article from January of 2015.
I’m looking, but this is what
By Frelmont
Tue, 07/23/2024 - 4:46pm
I’m looking, but this is what I found along the way
https://www.masslive.com/police-fire/2021/09/this-...
"I'm looking"
By lbb
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 1:08pm
Translation: I made a baseless accusation, and when called on it I could find nothing to back it up, but here's an old boot that I caught while I was off on that fishing expedition.
Clown.
I said “de facto” we’re all
By Frelmont
Fri, 08/16/2024 - 7:56pm
I said “de facto” we’re all living through it and directly experiencing living in a state where a governor appointed a very close relation to a lifetime judicial appointment. That’s Trumpian!
I nominate Senator Mark Kelly
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 4:53pm
I nominate Senator Mark Kelly to be the candidate for the 47th President of the United States of America.
What, you think your nomination will
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 5:38pm
make Senator Kelly reverse the endorsement he made of Harris yesterday and challenge her for the nomination?
Back here on Planet Earth, I think he'd make a solid Dem VP candidate.
This process is a farce. The
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 7:13pm
This process is a farce. The media and party leaders are in lockstep, what kind of freedom do electors have to vote their conscience?
From “governing partner” to
By Frelmont
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 7:23pm
From “governing partner” to Heir. Successor. Coronation. Selection. “Pelosi and Obama withholding endorsements so it doesn’t “appear as a coronation.” We rightly talk about Trump’s deviation from Democratic norms, yet we in our avarice, entitlement and desperation we’re like the pot calling the kettle black in lacking self examination. Amidst all the racist, xenophobic and misogynistic filth cluttering the criticisms of the left are nuggets of truth that threaten to put a chink in armor of our self righteousness. Remember, Harris is not free of baggage and negatives. Harris’s rhetoric on Israel is even leas well-tempered than Biden’s appeasing of the antisemitic strain that fuels the engine of Progressivism.
A new term has entered the popular lexicon
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:30pm
Misogynoir
Os that a soup?
By Frelmont
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 11:39am
Is that a soup?
Portmanteau
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/24/2024 - 9:16pm
It means what you think it means, dear.
Natalie Portmanteau?
By Frelmont
Fri, 08/16/2024 - 7:57pm
Natalie Portmanteau?
Are you a democrat?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 9:28pm
If not, then go fight your little opinion battles elsewhere. This ain't your business.
More like a transparent Trumpie troll.
By MC Slim JB
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:30pm
"How do you do, fellow kids?"
I am a Democrat. I first
By Frelmont
Fri, 08/16/2024 - 8:37pm
I am a Democrat. I first voted for William Jefferson Clinton and wonder what hath “Clintonian triangulation wrought. I voted for Gore-Lieberman and know we will always need paper ballots. I voted for Obama-Biden in a “Got Hope” mood and discovered a corporate shill. I put a clothespin on my nose and voted for (Hillary Rodham) Clinton-Kaine and saw how the DNC is full of shit. I vote for Sanders in the primaries, though I’m tired of the extortion and I’m seeing that the pandering to the anti-liberal (and antisemitic) Progressives brings to mind classical conservative arguments and warnings about the perils of a socialist future.
Most of all these dark times of the consolidation of media into a few great commercial monopolies, where economics is driving the polarization that took root with wedge issues, knowing they’re engaged in ‘The Selling of the President,’ and that ‘You Can Fool All of the People All of the Time.”
The Home Shopping Cable News Networks (NPR is stuck in this trap) can’t afford to alienate their audiences which perfectly and respectively overlap with the two major parties. There is no semblance of a firewall between commerce, opinion and news. I know we all must be on the bandwagon, but I’m concerned there can’t be frank discussions. Is there really a groundswell for Harris? It seems that the media that shares her audience stood shoulder to shoulder around her as the DNC desperately puffed and blew on the kindling as they were rubbing sticks together to kindle her peculiar candidacy.
I’m voting for Harris-Walz, but
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