My coworker/work wife, we’ll call her N, has a habit of saying “What’s the sitch?” It’s caught on among our friend group so now everything (good or bad) is a “sitch” or a “situation”.
We’ve given RIP the morning off, lest he strokes out. Therefore, here’s the sitch, according to Meg:
This seems biblical; I’m sure all the deities are totally fine with whatever is going on down here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/12/hundreds-billions-locusts-fueled-by-conflict-climate-change-are-swarming-east-africa/?arc404=true
This is a neat series from WAPO:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/entertainment/faith-ringgold-american-people-series-20-die/?itid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-arts%3Ahomepage%2Fcard-ans
I got Warren, with Bernie as #2. Did you come up with anything surprising?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/quiz-which-candidate-agrees-with-me/
As a native Ohioan I take this very personally. Fuck Gym Jordan:
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/02/jim-jordans-name-comes-up-during-statehouse-testimony-on-osu-abuse-victims-bill.html
And here’s some good news out of Ohio!
https://www.cleveland.com/education/2020/02/kent-state-announces-free-tuition-for-lebron-james-family-foundations-first-i-promise-network-class.html
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/feb/12/stupid-cupid-valentines-day-disasters-as-seen-by-waiters
My book club is reading this as the moment and this had me howling…Definitely a sitch!
https://people.com/celebrity/trevor-noah-childhood-poop-demon-south-africa/
[Yes, I just googled songs with “situation” in the title”, @me with your better ideas!]
Happy Friday Jr. everyone!!
Not including the candidates who have since dropped out: Warren, Sanders, Steyer (whatever), Bloomberg (fuck that), Klobuchar (really?), Gabbard (oh come on), Biden (Christ), Buttigeg (no fucking way).
I mean – in the event he got the ticket I’d still be all “go, Pete” because fuck trump, obviously…but that seems fair enough I think?
My state votes for the D by roughly 30 points every time, so I have the luxury of voting my conscience. Now, if I was in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania, then sure I’d vote for him. I’d need to take several showers afterward and probably seek counseling, but I’d do it.
I was surprised I was 1 point away from being a Berner.
I have a perception of him based on the antics of his online minions, so I hadn’t been paying a lot of attention to him per se.
Salon has a good article about the myth of the Bernie Bros. They make the point that the number of obnoxious online Bernie supporters is only a fraction of voters planning on casting a ballot it for Bernie.
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/09/the-berniebro-myth-persists-because-pundits-dont-understand-how-the-internet-works/
Yeah, but that fraction of online supporters is LOUD AS HELL.
I don’t think everyone who supports Bernie is a raging dickhead or anything, but there sure are a lot of raging dickheads who support Bernie, if you’re picking up what I’m putting down.
It’s a good thing people vote based on their candidate’s position on issues and not bullshit that has literally nothing to do with the candidate.
I agree, but we also know that during the 2016 election some of the noisiest were Russian trolls, spouting their Bernie or Bust philosophy. And now we have Chuck Todd and the mainstream media doing their work for them. We don’t want to alienate progressive voters by dismissing them as Bernie fanatics.
I read this article today which points out a pretty obvious bit of hypocrisy among centrist voters–and media figures like Chuck Todd–that is never called out in the way it is among Sanders voters. The funny thing is, as a Warren supporter, I can’t help but notice that her candidacy never really got the same stupid treatment than Sanders’ campaign has (her treatment is a different kind of stupid).
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/bernie-or-bust-is-bad-but-i-get-it.html
The Bernie Bros were also pretty good at making things personal. Sure they may be a small and especially loud number but when they made you a target you didn’t care that they were only a small segment of the population.
I get it, but that can be said for any online experience. Most of the folks I interacted with on Splinter were decent, but I also had some horrifyingly ugly remarks regularly aimed at me by a few people. But I don’t want to see Dems turning away from Bernie due to a small though vocal group of his supporters. Especially when some of them may really be Russian trolls. And when they start piling on at MSNBC it only helps trump.
Interesting (and hopeful) article on the next election. To me, the critical stuff is at the end — the author attributes Bloomberg’s rise in the polls to the fact that Bloomberg’s already running against Trump, not the other Democrats, and that’s what voters want to see:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-polls-suggest-dems-should-chill-the-f-out
Yeah, it’s a pretty good tactic. I wish Warren were doing that. Trump is always blowing his mouthhole off about her, she might as well focus on him.
Dropping by the DOT to say howdy. Probably crawl through here more often. Caught myself a whole Kinja ban putting sand in Jezzie newbies panties.
…that’s quite the ban…but if it means we see more of you then I guess yay for silver linings?
Welcome! I think I saw that comment thread…you were saying all the things I had been thinking.
I wish I had seen that. I’m impressed by a total Kinja ban!
Welcome! Feel free to not calm your tits over here with us.
Welcome, we prefer our tits a little rambunctious!
Oh!? What did you say? Can you paraphrase at least?
I got Warren (yup), Bernie (okay), Steyer (I guess?), Buttigieg (nope), Klobuchar (ugh, fine), Gabbard (she’s still in this thing?), Bloomberg (fuck that), and Biden came in fucking last, because just about the only thing Biden is good for nowadays is losing shit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/quiz-which-candidate-agrees-with-me/
I can’t take the quiz because I’m not a WaPo subscriber and God know Jeff Bezo’s needs my $.
See, the funny thing about this quiz for me is that it puts Bernie first in my rankings. And it’s true, I do agree with him more policy wise. I just consider Warren the more pragmatic candidate, and capable of building the coalition to get it done.
…think I’m with you, there…there’s a lot I like about the things Sanders has been saying since…well…since before he was old, I guess…& that’s generally still the stuff he’s saying now & has been banging on about all the way from then to now…but I think she’d make the better candidate pretty much across the board?
I find myself coming around more and more to Bernie. I mean, he’s got issues, but he’s far from the worse person in the field, and I really do agree with him on, like, 95% of stuff. And when it increasingly looks like the other option is gonna be Buttigieg…yeah, I ain’t about that life fam.
I may end up having to vote Bernie instead of Warren depending on the Super Tuesday fall out. Even though WA moved its primary into March, we’re still in the block on the 10th.
*sighs*
I completely understand the frustration in POC communities with candidates being shoved down their throat. These blocks need to be broken up, and spread out.
Seems like so many well adjusted people in the know support Warren (I support her too, not sure if I’m well adjusted though). I really wish this country was ready for a female president but that’s a whole other can of worms.
…well, it could happen?
…but maybe the waters will rise & we’ll all join you for the life acquatic?
hope you guys have enough of those matching hats for all of us…
The deeper you go, the weirder life gets.
…up or down…it’s all pretty out there?
If i’m in charge the interns absolutely get guns this time around.